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Soooo easy, buy some “art” at an auction, probably take me two days.
If that isn’t gambling, what is?
Betting money on things. This is just buying something that costs waaaay more than it’s worth. It’s pretty close to money laundering, but not gambling. I don’t care if it holds any value, I just want to spend 100 mil fast. You can easily do that on one piece of art.
Treasury bonds here I come
Investments are probably covered under “gambling”.
Lol, just buy one house in the US.
The national average house price in the US is about $300k, so you’d need to buy about 320 houses to spend the $100 million
I could make that work. 🤔
I’ll become the Oprah of houses. You get a house, you get a house, everyone gets a house.
Most homes in the US don’t break a million in up front cost, unless you’re buying in one of the very popular “reality warp” locations that are in absurdly high demand (SF Bay area, Redmond, Dallas, New York, etc).
True. Maybe… 3 houses instead?
Easy, buy up a bunch of land for conservation
Property can take a while to close — offer to title in under 30 days is on the quick side.
Of course, you could probably close very fast if you offered 100M cash on a 10M property…
If you’re buying vacant land and paying cash, you can close really quickly as there’s nothing in need of inspection, and loan processing times aren’t a factor… I have a buddy who just purchased 100+ acres of vacant land from a logging company. He paid cash and was able to close in just a few weeks.
yeah, usually closing time is just buffer time for people to get their affairs in order, move out, inspections, lawyer stuff, etc. If you offer straight up cash and pay a boatload to the lawyers to get the paperwork done up ASAP, you can close likely within a couple weeks
In “Bewster’s Millions” he also had to have nothing of value at the end.
So yes that is a good method for this formula of the question.
Buy $20 for $100 million. If you can “buy” nft’s then Idk why you can’t buy something with less value.
The $20 bill has a unique serial number just like the nft.
It’s even better because no one else can have that same bill at the same time.
There are some recent $1 notes where the same serial was issued twice.
https://www.mycurrencycollection.com/blog/1-2013-new-york-duplicate-serial-number-mistake
Still 2 different bills.
If you can “buy” nft’s then Idk why you can’t buy something with less value.
I’ll tell you why: because there’s nothing with less value than an nft.
Lol That’s damn good.
I just remember the day, as a software dev with a solid understanding of Blockchain, my older dev neighbor started explaining how NFTs worked
I thought he was confused or stupid or something.
“Wait, so like you have these super rare images, proof you own it on a Blockchain, and a link to the place they’re all publicly hosted?”
Him: “Yep”
“And the only use for these right now is as a profile picture?”
Him: Shrug, “yeah, people use them for discord and stuff”
“But… Couldn’t you just download the image and use it anyways?”
Him: “Yeah, it’s all publicly hosted”
And it was about then my brain locked up. I did multiple hours of research later, sure I had to be missing something
You can buy medical debt, that has lots negative of value to the indebted.
i believe the IRS would consider this a gift.
Sent this to my friend at AWS and he said it was already all-over their internal Memes Slack channel. At least their engineers and project managers are in on the joke. 😁
I buy a boat
Brewsters millions would be so easy in 2024. Just train some AI.
I’m gonna buy 100 million tacos. That should provide adequate sustenance for the doctor who marathon.
Just buy one ticket to a Taylor Swift concert and you’re already a billion dollar richer
Easy when there are bad people you’re interested in.
Buy 100M worth of drones with ammo and transportation, only I’ll have to find somebody from former Artsakh Defense Army to ask where.
Or maybe just buy samples of anthrax, bubonic plague, some particular nasty kind of covid and other such nice things, lots of pests able to carry them and, of course, rodents, bribe lots of people on my way and bring all that stuff to Baku.
Starting right now, you have $100M in a checking account.
Honest question: do you predict you can have all those drones in your possession, and the account emptied, within 30 days?
No, I don’t. I don’t have a plan and making it will take probably more than a month
Start a company.
Create a product.
Price it at $100m.
Buy said product from my own company.
Could probably skip the second half. Overhead and salaries, etc. could put you out 100m.
They said $100,000,000 not $100,000. With $100 million you could start 10 companies easily and still end up profitable if even one of them hits paydirt.
I’ll just invest that into a nice, stable, diverse stock portfolio then, and use the dividends to both live on and start a charitable non-profit. Building shelters, donating to politicians who champion human rights, education, healthcare, founding free clinics, angel investing in co-op businesses, and funding food banks isn’t giving away the money after all. it’ll be slow going but pay broader dividends down the road.
Just pay for a couple people’s cancer hospital bills.
Sounds like gifting
In normal countries it’s called tax
Is paying for something for someone else not gifting?
In normal countries it’s called tax
Genie never said they’d give me a 100M to spend in the first place. No way I’d be able to spend 100M that I don’t have.
Find someone rich who would believe you have this pact with a génie, and promise them a 100% ROI.
Thinking of it, that’s not the worst idea for a new
sectreligion…Dibs on playing the genie
Or worse if he does, how do you prove to all the anti-money-laundering watchdogs you got free money from a genie? Will you be able to gain control over your instantly conviscated money in 30 days?
First get the spending money then do it. In a non-refundable unable to be altered manner (ignoring the magicially manifesting money part)
This reminds me of a scam I fell for in Eve Online once
I wonder whether Eve has more or less scams per capita (player) than Roblox or Runescape
On an unrelated note, anyone want me to trim their armor? 50k for colored trim, 100k for gold trim. Totally legit!
this is exactly how i learned what a scam was 20 years ago
Would donations count as gifting? There are so many FOSS projects that could use the cash inflow.
If it doesn’t count, well, prepare for a deluge of hentai to show up in a month.
Yes. You can buy their support though.
I was thinking about not donating to charity but buying stuff directly and asking them for support to ship it. Basically that makes you buy and not gift. If you buy 1 gigaton of rice for Ethiopia (I have no clue how many people a gigaton of rice would feed and I also have no clue whether Ethiopians need any rice) from Costco, well, then you have spent the money on it. Fuck it, maybe buy a boat. A ferry to ship it all directly. Buy land and don’t gift but let workers work there. For free. For eternity. Oh you happen to pay them 50 times the average salary of their country? Well you’re probably a bad businessman but you’re not gifting. Pay the lawyers to make a bulletproof testament where you explicitly state that these poor fellas will never own the land but will for eternity be able to use it for free until the sun explodes.
And then bribe. Bribe away the heartache, bribe away the pain. Bribe the SCOTUS to retire. Bribe Putin to stop the war and fuck off. Bribe Trump to fuck off. Bribe Musk to get a vasectomy and fuck off. I mean you’re basically just lobbying at that point but we all know that that’s bribing and not gifting.
I love that idea that you’d just go to your local Costco, say “One gigaton of rice please” and they give you a voucher to go to the front of the store where high value items are handed out after purchase.
I also have no clue whether Ethiopians need any rice
The Ethiopian famine was 30 years ago. Not that they haven’t had troubles off-and-on since then.
