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If you were a billionaire
Topic Started: Wed Jun 5, 2013 4:29 am (177 Views)
stigmata
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If you were a billionaire philanthropist (assume you've already bought your rocket car and your solid gold house etc, and still have mountains of cash left over), what would you spend your money on to make the world a better place?
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Live long and prosper.....!!

Ooh, so much that could be done. I'm assuming there's a bit more than one billion available, so that you can indulge yourself without turning yourself into a pauper while trying to help others ??

First off, set up a number of charitable trust funds, the interest from which would be used to help disabled and disadvantaged people around the world, and to help provide much needed medical services in areas where none exists !!

Establish more wildlife reserves around the world, on land and in the oceans, where people may visit under the guidance of experienced wardens, and where the only shooting that is done is with cameras !!

That will do for a start (while I think of more), and fortunately being a billionaire raising extra funds and getting stuff done wouldn't be much of a problem !!
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Education is the thing. Scholarships for people from disadvantaged backgrounds to study the arts and sciences, and endowments to build schools and train teachers in the developing world.

I'd also purchase historic buildings and green spaces, saving them from developers and making them accessible to the public.
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I would adopt entire orphanages in third world countries and make sure they had the resources they needed.
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Higher salaries for teachers. Solve the pet overpopulation problem. More $$ for space exploration. A cure for HIV. Another one for cancer.

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jespah
Wed Jun 5, 2013 8:12 am
Then on the second day, a believable toupée for Donald Trump.
I said you had billions of sovereigns, not a genie in a lamp
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Live long and prosper.....!!

stigmata
Wed Jun 5, 2013 9:19 am
jespah
Wed Jun 5, 2013 8:12 am
Then on the second day, a believable toupée for Donald Trump.
I said you had billions of sovereigns, not a genie in a lamp
:liz: _lmao_ :clap:
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Live long and prosper.....!!

Establish a series of co-operatives in towns and cities around the world, each one run by a team of experienced executives, that would recruit staff and trades to take on charitable work at the local level, to help disabled and disadvantaged people have a better quality of life and so they feel like useful and productive members of society !!
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I would give to those schools in need, and teachers to help them in their battle.

I would donate a ton of money for charities near and dear to my heart (for research and a cure).....diabetes, cancer, St Judes's Children's Hospital, veterans affairs, AIDS, and naturally animals. Homeless shelters and those for abused women and children.
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I'd become a shark and invest in a budding business.... something stupid, like StashIt
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set up something to ease the property tax
on the lower & middle classes.
because in a lot of places around here the property
taxes are crazy.
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I'm also assuming that these billions are from a source of renewable revenue, like I'm Bill Gates or somebody, who's a makes more millions every day kind of person

Begin a worldwide healthcare foundation, that offers the widest range of healthcare for people too unfortunate to provide for their own.

Donate to charities or institutions already in existence that serve both scientific or technological study/advancement, environmental/wildlife preservation & public education.

& I'd probably have to bankroll some kind of special interest group that begins trying to impact the state of government & the political landscape in this country, because the vast percentage of world misery is due to shitty leadership. If I had money, it would be best used trying to change that somehow, & a good deal of the other problems might begin sorting themselves out properly
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oh oh oh I would totally donate all kinds of actual trek stuff to the Star trek museum in Vulcan Alberta. Turn it into a real museum. Maybe I could put Stiggy in charge.
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