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Posted 13 April 2013 - 06:53 PM

Scenario:  You have won the Mega Millions, leaving you with a lump sum of $100 million after taxes.  (The original jackpot would have been around $400 million.)  What do you do?

 

I know exactly what I'd do.

 

For one thing, Invicta Studios would become a real thing.  We would do the radio show for real, as a podcast, with professional production.  Plus we'd film videos and short films for upload to our website, YouTube channel, etc.  It would be AWESOME.  Basically just like you'd imagine I'd make Invicta if I could simply will it to exist in real life.  Nas, KB, Thrash, Phate, and whoever else wanted to come work for me would be welcome.  Just be aware that would mean moving to Massachusetts.  Because we'll be doing it here.  In this house, in fact.  I plan to work from home.  :)

 

There's a pool:

 

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Which will naturally be clothing-free.  Note I did not say clothing optional.  You wanna swim, you get nekkid.

 

I figure we turn this into the recording studio:

 

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I would do other stuff, too.  I'd set up a charitable foundation, the Stafford Foundation, which would focus on issues of education and opportunity.  I'd make sure my friends and family were taken care of, which in most cases would mean paying off people's houses, paying for their kids' educations, etc.  Much of mine and the Foundations' money would be invested in socially-responsible portfolios; I have a very close friend whose brother-in-law specializes in just such matters.  Likely I would have some kind of vacation property in addition to the house above, but probably not right away.  I'd do a lot of traveling.

 

Invicta would be a vanity project, essentially, but fuck it; at $100 million I could afford it.  Let's say I spend $1 million for a kick-ass recording studio/production setup, which is a shit-ton.  We could have an amazing setup for a quarter of that.  But let's say I spend a million on it, just go all out.  A studio of that quality could probably attract professional clientele and generate revenue, but that's beside the point.  I wouldn't want to rent it out.

 

So we've got a million-dollar studio for Invicta Radio, or whatever we decided to call it.  Hell, maybe we just stick with Jorost & Friends.  Now let's say I take on enough staff to have around $300-500 grand a year in staffing (say six of you at $50 grand apiece plus associated benefits, etc.).  I could still afford it.  Even in a bad year, the money I'd have invested would be bringing in something on the order of $3-4 million, all taxed at the virtually nonexistent capital gains rate.  In a good year it would be a lot more.  Plus a lot of the money Invicta "lost" me could probably be written off in taxes.  So fuck it, what do I care?  And frankly with that kind of equipment and manpower we could generate some seriously good stuff.  I bet we could even make money on it.  Maybe even get a real-life show.

 

So, bottom line, if Jorost wins the lottery, EVERYBODY wins.  :)





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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:00 PM

Oh, I almost forgot.  I'd probably buy CyberNations.  Jorost would be Admin.  Imagine the possibilities.  :)



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:06 PM

I feel like this has come up before.



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:13 PM

I couldn't remember if it had or not.  Anyway I can't remember people's answers.  I think we had a more general discussion on "what if you won the lottery," but it got bogged down because we hadn't defined what that meant.  Winning $5 million would be great, but it wouldn't allow you to do what I describe above.  You could live a very nice upper-middle class lifestyle, but if you didn't want to work you'd still have to be careful.  You couldn't just spend money willy-nilly.  Any less than that, even a few million, is probably not enough to quit working, especially if you're younger than 50, which everyone here is, I think.  Still nice, still life-changing in lots of really great ways, but not the same experience as $100 million.  That's an entirely different world.  That's make-your-dreams-come-true money.

 

So what would Hundred-Millionaire Phate do?



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:28 PM

I would:

  • Pay off my parent's mortgage
  • Buy a nice house
    • Not too extravagant but comfortable
  • Buy a nice car or two
  • Buy a car for my brother
  • Do something for my sister
  • Spend a few grand on computer stuff
  • Invest the rest

 

(The creativity is all in the computer stuff)



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:35 PM

Well what about the computer stuff?  You're thinking too small, my friend.  At that price range you could create virtually anything.



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:37 PM

I'd restart on my path to make it to the big raves. :awesome:

 

All that would include getting my own place, perhaps a two bedroom apartment, I don't really need a large house or anything. Or Three Bedroom. An up to date car, or motorcycle. I prefer motorcycle. The equipment I'd need to produce at optimum efficiency and quality. A better gaming desktop. A Mac(lol). And I think that covers it. After that I'll just be on my way to underground fame. =D



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:41 PM

Doing what?

 

And I forgot about cars.  I'd probably get one of these:

 

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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:44 PM

DJ'ing/Producing



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:48 PM

Pay off all my families debt, buy a bunch of land, land that used to be under our control, put it back into the family. Buy a lot more land, called Mount Joy Two, where we have a shooting range and stuff. Start an aquaponics business, solar panels on all my homes n stuff.

 

I guess make a bunch of companies, make my own lab. Invest in some ideas I have, try to bring those out; try to make non-profit businesses that pretty much compete with regular businesses, are a tad socialistic but aren't about pouring billions of dollars into CEO's etc.

 

 

Thus creating jobs and decent wages.

 

Become Batman.



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 08:14 PM

Let's stipulate from here on out that everyone would take care of their loved ones.  You don't have to say that.  I'm more interested in the fun and interesting stuff!

 

At that level of money, there would come a point where I would probably run for office.  Not for awhile, maybe when I was in my 50s.  Probably run for Congress from Massachusetts' 6th district.  Through the Foundation I would have been making the rounds in Democratic circles, donating to causes and candidates for several years by then anyway.  And I could run as someone independent of private interest money.  Plus I'm great in front of an audience.  :)



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 08:20 PM

I would:

 

  1. Pay off my parent's mortgage (Damn it Phate :P
  2. Buy them a second story
  3. Buy me a penthouse apartment somewhere
  4. Get a Ferrari Spider convertable :3
  5. Invest half of what's left
  6. Use the other half to set up a development studio, hire my best friends, and build "Games n shit" (as it is termed in the industry)

Jorost could be both our PR guy and the main character of the flagship game line. It'd be awesome x3


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Posted 13 April 2013 - 08:37 PM

OMG I would totally move to Australia!



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 08:48 PM

I'd be Batman.

 

Go and capture terrorists and most wanted and stuff, turn them in, make even more moneysz.

 

 

Go beat the shit out of the WBC, KKK groups etc.

 

Cool stuff like that.

 

 

STUFF THE LAW CAN'T HANDLE!

 

I've got everything planned out from equipment to armor to specific tactics and strategies.

 

 

The cartels would be a major thing of mine.

 

The U.S. can't get involved in slave labor in China, illegal arms manufacturing and drug trafficking in Ecuador, even Mexico because of corruption and political issues. It would be an international fiasco to invade China and shut down the child labor institutions, that they deny even existing.I have no jurisdiction. I can go in there and do whatever the hell I want; boom, problem solved.


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Posted 13 April 2013 - 08:54 PM

Eventually I would create a super-corporation called "Illuminati", clearly a private corp, and buy a bunch of companies, making them subsidiaries of the super-corp. Simply so I can actually be in charge of an evil secret society taking over the world. 

 

I'd also want to make a phone company called "Tricorder". Cause that will pay off SO hard.



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 09:00 PM

My guess is that the name "Tricorder" is ©Paramount Pictures.  But I like the general idea.  If you create a V For Vendetta-like world can I be the Mouth?

 

No, wait.  Dammit.  The name "The Mouth" is ©Nas.



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 09:24 PM

In that case: buy Paramount.



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 09:28 PM

Paramount is worth about $1.2 billion.  You'd be a little short.  :P



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Posted 13 April 2013 - 09:32 PM

I would buy all my friends who are girls boob-jobs.

 

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Posted 13 April 2013 - 09:40 PM

...

 

Long term plan, hostile takeover of Paramount.

 

My Tricorder will not be denied! :P


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