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A Hypothetical "What If" Scenario

Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
Including the proposed figures by President Elect Obama, so nearly 10 trillion dollars.

You are given all the money and it's current sitting in a single, standard savings account at your bank of choice.

For arguments sake, unlike those currently receiving the bailout money, you will have to pay back the money within 50 years plus 5% interest per year, giving you a time limit.

What do you do?
 
I don't think anyone here could wrap his/her head around exactly how enormous of a sum of money that is.
 
Build an army, conquer Canada and Mexico, and sell their resources to the rest of the world.

Or else put together a mercenary army and go pirate about in the waters off the coast of Somalia. 😛


Originally posted by: newb111
I would spend it all before 50 years is up and give them the middle finger when they ask for it back.
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Just ask for another bailout.


 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Build an army, conquer Canada and Mexico, and sell their resources to the rest of the world.

Or else put together a mercenary army and go pirate about in the waters off the coast of Somalia. 😛
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Also, since its the US Government you need to pay back, would people stand by while you invaded Canada and Mexico with a mercenary army? Of course, you could likely just bribe most of the US military to join your side.

For 10 trillion, thats a hell of a mercenary army. 😛 Plus, I think there'd be some more 'lucrative' waters to pirate.
 
I'd take whatever amount I need to start a company that produces 100% environmentally friendly products - starting with a whole line up of vehicles, then perhaps home power kits (solar panels, batteries, inverters all in an easy to maintain and use kit), and other stuff to replace oil based products. Have different line of products mass produce and sell for as cheap as possible at first so it picks up. I'd expect to have a loss at first but would try to make a profit out of it over time. That would probably cost under a billion, so that's not even a fraction of the money. I'd have to find lot of people to help me with this as I don't know enough about that stuff to do it alone, though I could use some of the money to take electrical course or w/e it takes. Now the hard part of this is somehow hiding it from the oil industry. I'd have to get a lawyer or group of lawyers and figure out a way so the oil industry can't patent the whole thing and take it from me, shutting down my company. Most of the small guys that have tried this were shut down due to this. Given I'd have the money I'd do what it takes to force the company into existence.

The rest of the money I'd leave for now and invest it. If/when my company starts making tons of money and the concept really picks up, then I'd have a cash flow and don't have to worry about paying the dept. Any extra money I have (probably a lot, as the investing alone would be insane) I'd give to animal shelters, and people in need.

Oh, and I'd build a serious kick ass computer. 😛
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I'd take whatever amount I need to start a company that produces 100% environmentally friendly products - starting with a whole line up of vehicles, then perhaps home power kits (solar panels, batteries, inverters all in an easy to maintain and use kit), and other stuff to replace oil based products. Have different line of products mass produce and sell for as cheap as possible at first so it picks up. I'd expect to have a loss at first but would try to make a profit out of it over time. That would probably cost under a billion, so that's not even a fraction of the money. I'd have to find lot of people to help me with this as I don't know enough about that stuff to do it alone, though I could use some of the money to take electrical course or w/e it takes. Now the hard part of this is somehow hiding it from the oil industry. I'd have to get a lawyer or group of lawyers and figure out a way so the oil industry can't patent the whole thing and take it from me, shutting down my company. Most of the small guys that have tried this were shut down due to this. Given I'd have the money I'd do what it takes to force the company into existence.
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With ten trillion, couldn't you just buy out several oil companies? Or tell them to fvck off when they file a suit against you for patent infringement? Or simply bribe the patent offices to either give you the patents or declare their's null and void?

Also, this kind of money would purchase a very potent paramilitary for your own personal use. I don't think protection of your personal self would be too much trouble.
 
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I'd take whatever amount I need to start a company that produces 100% environmentally friendly products - starting with a whole line up of vehicles, then perhaps home power kits (solar panels, batteries, inverters all in an easy to maintain and use kit), and other stuff to replace oil based products. Have different line of products mass produce and sell for as cheap as possible at first so it picks up. I'd expect to have a loss at first but would try to make a profit out of it over time. That would probably cost under a billion, so that's not even a fraction of the money. I'd have to find lot of people to help me with this as I don't know enough about that stuff to do it alone, though I could use some of the money to take electrical course or w/e it takes. Now the hard part of this is somehow hiding it from the oil industry. I'd have to get a lawyer or group of lawyers and figure out a way so the oil industry can't patent the whole thing and take it from me, shutting down my company. Most of the small guys that have tried this were shut down due to this. Given I'd have the money I'd do what it takes to force the company into existence.
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With ten trillion, couldn't you just buy out several oil companies? Or tell them to fvck off when they file a suit against you for patent infringement? Or simply bribe the patent offices to either give you the patents or declare their's null and void?

Also, this kind of money would purchase a very potent paramilitary for your own personal use. I don't think protection of your personal self would be too much trouble.
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Hmm not sure if it would be enough to buy out oil companies as they are probably richer then microsoft themselves. But if it was, I'd buy them all out in the process. In fact I could slowly up the gas prices to sell my product. wow, that's so evil, but it would probably work. Since if I owned the oil industry I'd have control of the price. I'd buy opec too. Now we're talking!

And yeah I could have my own military since the middle east would probably be on my back all the time.

Ok, who wants to give me the money, I promise to go 99% green by year 2013. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Also, since its the US Government you need to pay back, would people stand by while you invaded Canada and Mexico with a mercenary army? Of course, you could likely just bribe most of the US military to join your side.

For 10 trillion, thats a hell of a mercenary army. 😛 Plus, I think there'd be some more 'lucrative' waters to pirate.
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Fine, I'm not "invading" them, I am "liberating" them. I'll solve the immigration problem by turning Mexico into US territory. And I guess I'll also take over Central America as well. Then that would leave the Panama Canal to guard - it's a much shorter length of land than the US-Mexico border.

I'll put in an order for a bunch of those Big Dog robots then from Boston Dynamics, and have them employed as miners or oil drillers in the cold northern regions of Canada. And I suppose we'd have a lot of ex-Mexican and Central American people looking for work, so they can head up there too and help out, but first I'd lower the minimum wage to around $1/hr. Hey, it's better than they were making before, right? 😉

So, we get good home-grown oil and access to lots of cheap Canadian hardwood forests and other natural resources, cheap legal labor, and the immigration problem is solved

Look for me on the ballots in 2012.




 
With that much money, do you think you or your family/relatives will live more than a few days? Anyone with half a brain will want a piece of that money, one way or another. (Envy and greed, we are born with them.)
Unless you live in outer space or totally isolated, you will never be safe.
"How much is a good night sleep worth?"
 
$10T is enough to start a new, non-welfare state. I'd give that a shot and hope that the avoidance of economic dead weight loss was enough to repay it.
 
Originally posted by: GundamW
With that much money, do you think you or your family/relatives will live more than a few days? Anyone with half a brain will want a piece of that money, one way or another. (Envy and greed, we are born with them.)
Unless you live in outer space or totally isolated, you will never be safe.
"How much is a good night sleep worth?"
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I'd give a million to all family members to shut them up. 😛

OR loan it to them, they have to pay it back + double the interest you have to pay back.

Heck, just start a shark loan business with the money. 😀
 
Originally posted by: GundamW

Unless you live in outer space . . .
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Well, you do have more money than all the combined space programs in the world. Why not build you own space station? Or better yet, put a station in orbit around Mars and begin terraforming it for your personal planet.
 
Hypothetically... if assuming that I indeed do have to and want to pay back the money + interest in 50 years, I'd take the 10 Trillion and buy US treasuries that pay > 5%... At least if the government defaults on it, they default on themself. Because I don't think there's really anyway to safely invest such a large sum of money for a single person. So if I could get 6% or more I can get in excess of 100B annually in income net of interest paid.
 
I would pump and dump the entire DJIA, SP, and NASDAQ. Put that much money into the markets and they would all skyrocket. Then pull it out just as fast for a mind-boggling profit.
 
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