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I just sold a company for 40 million USD.

What do you even do with that sort of moderate influence?

It's too little to build (or crash) world economies, and I'm too indecisive to invest a single dime in a publicly traded company. No, scratch that. I'll never invest a god-damn scent-of-sent in their game.

What the fuck man, what do I even do with this?

I just sold a company for 40 million USD. What do you even do with that sort of moderate influence? It's too little to build (or crash) world economies, and I'm too indecisive to invest a single dime in a publicly traded company. No, scratch that. I'll never invest a god-damn scent-of-sent in their game. What the fuck man, what do I even do with this?

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[–] E-werd 2 points (+2|-0)

Building on the "fuck you" position.

$40m isn't enough to live the rest of your life out freely in a place like California, but in a place like West Virginia you could buy a town. If it were me, I'd put that money in a few places that generate good interest, which will pay taxes and general expenses. Move to a place that's cheap to live, a place that's isolated, a place where you can step out on your back porch and fire a rifle and not piss off anybody, nor put them in danger.

I was looking at Scranton, PA as a general location, found a nice house here. You're secluded and in the middle of nowhere, only a few neighbors, on a small lake. It's a half-day drive to NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, anywhere in NJ/DE/MD/VA/NY/CT/RI/MA. It's a great jumping-off point while still be isolated. Even better if you are an sportsman, as PA is about the best you can find--the first Monday after Thanksgiving is practically a state holiday.

As for influence... who the fuck cares. $40m won't buy you international influence, and only a couple instances of national at best. Live your life, don't fuck with that bullshit. If you don't want to end up with concrete shoes in the Susquehanna then don't get into that. Live your life, do it quietly, do it happily. $40m buys you 10 years in CA, but buys you and your children a lifetime of comfort in PA.

Even better in WV, but you just don't have access to anything there--that's the true "fuck you" location. That's "fortress on a hill and quietly kill intruders" kind of "fuck you".

[–] CDanger 1 points (+1|-0)

How is that not enough in California? Assume you invest this and get no real returns and you will live 80 more years (both extremely conservative assumptions). You can pull out $500k per year. Almost everyone in California lives off less than $500k per year.

I agree with your point that you can buy a lot more in places outside of California, but if you were to have that much money, the more important question is what kind of lifestyle you want to live. There's no reason to pinch pennies and live your life in rural Nebraska to stretch your money if you hate the countryside and there is no reason to live in the suburbs so you are close to jobs if you want to own land out in the country.

Well a ~39 million dollar windfall in california is a take home of something like 12-15 million after the feds get done bending you over, and and the state is done claiming their sloppy seconds. Then there's property taxes, and the insane prices for acreage in most of the state... I swear to god I don't know why anyone would choose to live in that hellhole, even before half the state burnt to the ground... Maybe I'm just extra bitter because most of the country is breathing their smoke right now.

But I digress. Even 5 million is absolutely enough to retire on there, but you'd be living a surprisingly middle-class lifestyle for a multi-millionare.

And at the other end of the spectrum, I don't want to live like a king in the third world either.

I feel like texas might be a good compromise between the two...

[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0)

Lets play pretend that that whitey-built roof and slant-built econo-box is set... (as if japan's autos haven't dropped off in the last 15)

Who do I say "fuck you" to in order to do the greatest good that doesn't get me some concrete shoes in a coastal city I've never visited?

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

There's risks and there's risks. 40 million leaves you plenty to be set. How much of it will you gamble to fuck the things about the system you hate? So you buy two roofs and two shitboxes. You're still in the position of "fuck you". A million dollars for 2 speeches bought Russia a fuckton of Uranium. Politicians aren't George Soros. You've got money to buy enough of em to effect some kind of change. It's gonna run out at some point and in the next few years they're gonna vote to fuck you when it dries up. I say fuck em all. You wanna help people... help American homeless. I'm not talking about donations. Start a nonprofit and help people who matter to you whoever they may be.

Since we're playing pretend, lets say I have 38.9MM in Jason Stathem-esque fuck-you money.

I think we both know my money don't buy Soros' owners. Sure I pay more in one speech, but that old fuck is paying for his grandkids at this point. Needless to say, I don't got those connections regardless.

And again, I might have the dollars for russian blue-gold, but I don't have the sway to keep the feds off my bsck like the DNC, not to mention the heats on, and they'd never make that deal with a nobody hoping to be a somebody...

So what can a nobody do? Double down on 3M during their next lawsuit, then dump for a cool 300k with out the SEC looking for insider trading? Maybe the presidential comment will make me a cool .3% on the S&P this year? SHit... That isnt bad...

Its a loser's game, and I'm actually considering dumping a few gs on actual jap-tier honda collector cars just for giggles. Shit, hell knows they'll always find a boy lookin for a thrill....

[–] OeeThaGreat 1 points (+1|-0)

You should buy me a house.

How about 3 houses... but they're all in detroit?

[–] OeeThaGreat 1 points (+1|-0)

What part of Detroit?

Eminem-tier, South of Eight Mile, $12,000-buys-you-a-quarter-acre-with-a-home-and-a-remodel, Detroit...

I'm obviously talking out my ass with even having that much money, but $150,000 of vacant land the badlands outside Detroit is probably a way safer investment than buying a house in any nice neighborhood would be right now. Real low property taxes. lol

[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

You could go buy a castle somewhere in Europe to us as a vacation home, or buy a bunch of land somewhere that you pre-negotiate building codes so you could build your own fortified castle. That might be fun.

Has anyone ever built a castle with a tennis court in the courtyard? A tennis courtyard, if you will? I don't even play the game, but that's exactly the sort of lengths I'd go to for a pun.

Donate it all to Phuks.

I would, but I'd immediately take a side on the whole broccoli/cabbage thing and start to censor the opposition. Probably best that someone like me stays out of media ;)

[–] smallpond 1 points (+1|-0)

Maybe if I had nothing else to do, I might focus on the 'tragedy of the commons' ie. investigating how humans can work together societally to be smarter than isolated individuals, rather than stupider. Given this successful company thing, perhaps you already know a bit about that.

If you want to consider a variety of big-picture ideas https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ might be worth a browse.

That's actually a really thoughtful answer. I've never bought into the idea of long-term success in high-density populations though. Which is not to say it can't happen, just that everyone has to have a really big carrot to chase, and humans tend to compete for limited resources even while there's still enough to go around. (we can thank Nash for that mindset, at least in the corporate world)

Given this successful company thing, perhaps you already know a bit about that.

And by the way, I am very much playing pretend about the whole "im rich" thing, but I did briefly study Lloyd in school. Of course they tried to use his whole philosophy as an argument for authoritarian government (socialist or otherwise), while I saw it as a compelling argument why natural selection must be allowed to take its course.