HACKER Q&A
📣 bloomingkales

What reason would you have to chase wealth beyond $50M?


I can’t actually figure this out. I thought I always knew. There’s no way a sound heart would pursue that unless … unsound.

It’s a feeling I can’t really shake right now with the images on the news.

  👤 cmrx64 Accepted Answer ✓
There’s this commercial lot nearby, abandoned scrapyard, selling for around $150M. It would be such a cool piece of property for hosting robot fights and drone swarm training arena. Lots of random junk and equipment from being an operational recycling facility for decades. Enough space to imagine building community maker shops.
👤 tolciho
$50 million?! That's about three orders of magnitude above where I got off the rat race. With any luck it'll hit a four orders of magnitude, though the Timon of Athens problem is not unknown.
👤 schoen
Endow a university or private high school somewhere?

Pay for research on something you think is interesting or worthwhile?

Create a park or a museum?

(A bunch of billionaires-in-today's-terms from the 19th and early 20th centuries tended to do stuff like that, and a lot of the stuff they endowed is still around!)

Pay for an expensive social, architectural, scientific, or ecological experiment of some sort?

👤 Grosvenor
Inflation?

For your grandchildren, and your grandchildren's 2.3 children.

👤 basementcat
Purchase^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Bankroll campaigns for one or more representatives in Congress.
👤 _sys49152
maple syrup farms