Use it.
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Sounds cliche but I would have a massive animal sanctuary. Our domesticated animals shouldn't be left alone. They need us as much as we need them.
Fund my totally nonfictional company by commissioning professional online artists like Panda Paco or Reva the Scarf to make official portraits of all of us totally real people, starting with me, the head beaver.
That's probably the first thing I'd wanna do.
Destroy capitalism.
Continue doing what I love without having to worry about money being an issue
Hack the planet!
People have found these and gotten arrested over exploiting them, let's be real
You don't hear about the ones that haven't been caught yet
Right? Don't go hog wild. Live slightly above your current means. Don't hoard, just... Cruise, be chill. Nobody needs millions. Nobody needs hundreds of thousands. You just need enough to do the simple things you enjoy without being excessive.
Duplicate money.
See if I can manufacture a world-wide property value crash
Everyone's kickstarter will meet every goal. All of them. Even the bad ideas. 😈
Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we'll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!!
You'd better start with some pretty hefty security for yourself cause your have assassination attempts pretty quickly.
Welp... care for a job as security advisor?
You could create hyper inflation destroying modern currencies causing them to have to pay your assassins in gold, which would be a major pain in the ass if you didn't already physically own gold.
I feel like they'd kill me long before that. Unless they figure out that I have an infinite money glitch, then I'd just get kidnapped and tortured till I spill how I do it.
I think it matters how paranoid you become and how much effort you put into risk aversion. If you buy a fortress and almost never leave, you are probably pretty safe. If you just go about living the same way you were, you will probably be offd on the street.
I mean, if a person with a normal budget purchases a fortress the IRS (Or their country's equivalent) is gonna notice. Pretty much any government in existence isn't gonna want someone with the power to single handedly ruin any economy to exist.
Not if they are smart and hire an accountant.
The prompt just says "money" so you could use any and all currencies. You almost certainly would touch your own countries currency last, so you have something easy to trade with.
Also how good is the IRS at taxing the rich already?
Depends on if it's generational wealth, or a normal person getting rich. But yeah, the best accounting firm money can buy would probably take care of that problem pretty quickly.
Yeah it would be tricky, you would have to play your cards right and play them close to your chest... But you have sooo much power, there are a multitude ways you could succeed.
Even if you knew nothing about economics, finance or accounting you could just take a vacation to some small island country where they have there own small currency and news travels slowly. Build up some wealth before you go there, rent the most extravagant things you can and get close to the upper echelon and then blackmail them into helping you... Or use a carrot and cut them in on your plans.
People are bribed so cheaply that I think it would be easier than you think to get a fortress, (metaphorical or otherwise) between you and would be assasins before they even realize who you are.
Do you know that no one actually knows who the richest man is? We only have guesses who would be in the top 10.
Use the hell out of it.
I'd house and feed the homeless, rescue a SHIT LOAD of farm animals, and generally be a good person. But that's why I'll never be uber rich.
Username checks out and I'd like to express my support for this :)
Keep it to myself and fund projects I like (under the assumption that I could get a million € per h for example)
Not ask the internet what I would do – revealing that I’ve found an infinite money glitch.
Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.
Something terrible.
Probably cause mass inflation and a return to bartering.
Tell no one, obscure monetary transactions to the best of my ability, and fund global communism
- Tell absolutely no one.
- Helping the people who did help me when I was in need of help.
- Live an simple, boring life.
- Continue studying what I like (I love learning).
Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.
I'd also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.
I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My "car" would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.
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I'd sell an e-book about this glitch on Amazon and generate passive income!
I'd spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist's house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most
Abuse the fuck out of it so I could right as many wrongs as I could with said money.
Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library's worth of books, and make art/video games all day.
Yes, it has happened to me.
I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.
I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.
I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)
When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more.
Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)
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