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If I were Filthy Rich
By TriAttackBottle
+12 If you could win the lottery and pick literally any amount to win(No Limit)- What Figure would you pick -and specifically ,why / What goals would you aim for what that specific amount? / Ideal Amount?

I've found this to be a often in-depth and curious question-

Because sure, infinite money is infinite money - Difference between say, 800 trillion and 2 Quadrillion, doesn't really show up in short term, mid term or long term affairs for someone - But it does at other amounts.

 

For my choice amount - A long time ago I realized that a Million is still a figurative amount sorta- so I'd figured that an ideal amount would - peg your daily interest, to a million a day with ,say, a 5% interest rate from investments. Which would be 7.3 Billion at the time of this post. (This can be cheated with a higher rate- so for 7% you'd need 5.2 billion($5,214,285,714.000)

Given days in the year, that's the amount that equals - A Million a day (or just multiply a amount by 0.000137 to get your daily amount at 5%) to then allocate towards good causes when you get settled and set up to do so - The only things seriously out of reach would be trying to own multiple billion dollar things , or yachts which seem to be the most expensive thing- though the key is that yachts can likely have a lot of goodies without being a Billion.

AKA, any more- - I can't see in general what anything more gets you(unless you're vying for political sway or whatnot and might run into other multi billionaires) , and bigger projects really, REALLY should be initiatives by countries. Like Space Stations/moon bases/etc- but that is more suitable and really what a country or few ought to fund, not one person.

(Granted it'll be a long time before lotteries see 7 billion jackpots, but that figure seem to be THE figurative amount.)

 

 

Sidenotes: Also for math/comparison purposes using roughly Elon's current time worth of about ~440 billion- using the same figures- that = 60.8 million a day. You still don't see a billion a day in interest until 7.3 Trillion, but that feels very hard to spend large, today without taking a lot more into consideration- but you don't need to be a trillionaire unless you're cooking up (lol) Aircraft carriers, and even then you only need to be a hundred billionaire, likely far far less actually since a pet project aircraft carrier wouldn't cost the same as military ones.

What amount would you pick - and more importantly , what would the amount you pick, scale for/allow you to do? What would be possible? And curiously enough - What would NOT be easily possible at your chosen amount?

Recent responses

+25 @ElderlyPleaseRespect 900 trillion

+12 @gvillager I'd be happy with just enough to comfortably retire and not have to work anymore. $4-5 million cash after taxes would be good enough for me. People like Musk and Bezos remind of those we see on the show Hoarders, the only difference is one hoards cash while the other hoards junk.

+10 @firephoenix0013 Honestly the $20 million basic jackpot is fine. Now where I feel id have the most fun donation wise would be $600 million.