What 1 thing would you buy with $1 billion?

LOL! I know the feeling

 

Being too smart just causes trouble.

I'd invent something I'd call "IQ Drain". Does exactly what it says. Drain my brain down to a normal level or even slightly retarded...

 

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Hahaha!! They're called drugs and its an effective but not recommended solution to high iq due to overpowering and detrimental + mostly irreversible life altering side effects.

 

Yeah, you start to think Resident Evil is good. If you overdose, you might even think Dead Rising is good.

 

lol!
I don't mind the old Resi games really since I liked them back in the day (I'm a total silent hill fan myself).

EDIT: Shit, forgot what thread I was posting in!

 

I would invest it all in research on self-replicating nanites capable of enacting a grey goo scenario. Then ransom the world for a billion and one dollars.

Either that or build a Gundam.

 

For a billion you can make a plane that will be better and faster than a Concorde and a lot more reliable too. You can even build a SSTO shuttle for that sum if you'll find the right people

 

I'm a bit disturbed by the fact that there seems to be an overwhelming majority of people who would use the money to destroy the world rather than for their own or society's betterment.

 

1 billion, to be spent in one item only, well, then id buy a resident evil 3.5!

 

i'd buy an agave plantation in mexico and live like a king for the rest of my life a king with a supply of very very good tequila.

with the change i'd buy land in Ireland a pub and a various homes city and rural

 

Most of them aren't really serious about it. And there's a people ready to give all that money for medical research or something like that.

But there's some people thinking about becoming a dictator or something like this, cleaning this consumer society mess and uniting people. Thing is, it's possible and there's a lot of books and even a few real life examples in ancient history but thing is - you just can't do it with just a billion, and THEY got a lot more money, armies etc. And you need to be a political genius to make it happen.

Some people thinking current economic model in one day with some сrazy plan? It's just stupid as it will hit poor people way more harder than those corporate oligarchs. Also there's a huge chance that it will only make them way more powerful - they will just drop all that democracy and freedom masks, they will be the lords and you'll be the servant or even slave. Change a police state to a full-fledged tyranny ? Not a good idea. Best way is to develop a new model which takes the best of current and past ones and maybe with some really new ideas.And when today's financial capitalism will fall there will be a better thing ready to replace it. But it's a hard work and most people like to think about some magic wand that can change the world in one day. Real life is more complex thing than video games and movies.

 

Most of them aren't really serious about that, either.

 

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I don't know.
I think I'd buy an island with all you need to live safely and retire from mankind.
Or maybe, buy a Nuke and nuke a strategic place to start WWIII (there's plenty of choice: Teheran, Jerusalem, Mecca, PyongYang, Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow, Washington, Bombay, Islamabad)

 

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Probably true, but I'd need the rest of the money for fuel and my own personal ground slaves... er i mean crew...:excitement:

 

Only one purchase with a Billion..... ok, well I'd speak to LG about producing open-frame 29" 4:3 480p LCD panels with zero lag, as direct drop-in replacements for all the current arcade monitors. It's not like CRTs are going to last forever......

Other than that, I'd like a real museum quality dinosaur fossil in the entrance hall of my house, either a Triceratops or a Raptor. And in the garage I'd like a 458 Spider, an Aston Martin Rapide and a Phantom Drop Head.

 

Wait Instead of my original plan, I'd put a billion ones in a billion g-strings.

 

hmmm, a billion one dollar hookers, or one billion dollar hooker...