Saturday, November 06, 2010
Question Time: What If You Had A Ridiculous Amount of Money?
We're not big on rampant capitalist greed here at Figure Five, to say the least. Having money is one of those things I generally assume happens to other people, and for the most part that doesn't bother me. I am confident in my ability to make enough to support myself, if not extravagantly, at least not over-frugally. I've been fortunate never to have been proven wrong in this. Tonight's question, though, is this: Suppose you had a ridiculous amount of money. What would you do with it?
Let me define "ridiculous" here. I'm not talking about win-the-lottery money. If I won the lottery I'd pay off my student loans and go back to school and make some smart investments and start a fund for my friends who need medical care and generally do reasonable, ethical things. I'm considering "ridiculous" to be "money enough that after you've done all the reasonable, ethical things you can do, you still have money left over." Assume the hungry are fed, the homeless are housed, sustainable infrastructure is put in place, essential scientific research is comfortably set up, and you still have more money than you know what to do with. What is the most frivolous thing you can enjoy doing?
My list goes a little something like this:
- Acquire a Savannah cat. Crossbreeds of Servals and housecats, these are gorgeous animals that are friendly, intelligent, play fetch, stand about toddler height, and can leap seven feet. It would be like having your very own Hobbes.
- Go total eclipse chasing. Pick an eclipse and follow the path of totality across the globe.
- Take a private space-flight. One where I can attempt things in zero-G which no proper astronaut would let me do.
- Offer a huge cash prize to the first person who can build me a working time machine.
- The hell with that, actually. Go get several advanced science degrees and build one myself. In my evil lab at the center of a dormant volcano. Where I will have android lab techs.
- Eat something delicious in every country.
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