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500,000,000 dollars

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Now, you have to think this challenge out a bit. Each day at least $13,698,630.14 must be spent.

On what?
It's easy to spend that amount - hire 137 people and pay them close to $1million/day to pick up litter, for example. Or twice as many people at 1/2 the pay.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
It's easy to spend that amount - hire 137 people and pay them close to $1million/day to pick up litter, for example. Or twice as many people at 1/2 the pay.
You are a thinker! My son says that he would pay people more than the usual amount to get the things he wants for himself. It would put a lot of people to work!
 

Onyx

Active Member
Premium Member
I wonder if Steam has half a billion dollars worth of games available, since I would be able to afford the datacenter to store them all finally.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I could piece it out, build it from scratch, part by part.
I thought of that! My daughter says that to spend that much in one year would be too much work. She says that every day is buying day and that would not be fun. I tend to disagree.
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
OOOps! Never mind!

the question is for 500,000,000,000. Sorry!
We normally call that moving the goalposts. In North America, 1/2 a billion dollars is 500 Million.
$500 billion... is 1/2 a Trillion dollars and 7.xxx TIMES Bill Gates Net worth...
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
We normally call that moving the goalposts. In North America, 1/2 a billion dollars is 500 Million.
$500 billion... is 1/2 a Trillion dollars and 6.xxx TIMES Bill Gates Net worth...
It's called a "mistake". I didn't move anything.

500,000,000 is easy to spend. I could probably do that in two weeks.
 

Skwim

Veteran Member
You can have a half a billion dollars, but you must spend it all in 365 days. You may not donate any of it to another and you may not buy any property for more than ten million dollars, which means you can't buy a country or your own private island if it will cost more than ten million dollars.

Can you do it?
Spend it on gold bullion.

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Kemosloby

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
I thought of that! My daughter says that to spend that much in one year would be too much work. She says that every day is buying day and that would not be fun. I tend to disagree.
smart girl, spending money is work.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
You probably want to know where the question came from.

I was talking to my daughter about you guys. It went from is disciple a noun? She said it is a noun, but what does she know?

Then it slipped into evolution vs creation and I said that people do not know how very short 3.9 billion years ago is. Anyway, it is! I am sure.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
500,000,000 is a half of a billion. I think I got the title right. I thought it was wrong, but it's right.
 

Laika

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
You can have a half a billion dollars, but you must spend it all in 365 days. You may not donate any of it to another and you may not buy any property for more than ten million dollars, which means you can't buy a country or your own private island if it will cost more than ten million dollars.

Can you do it?

I think I'd start by buying a copy of Brewster's Millions for inspiration. :D

 

McBell

mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
You can have a half a billion dollars, but you must spend it all in 365 days. You may not donate any of it to another and you may not buy any property for more than ten million dollars, which means you can't buy a country or your own private island if it will cost more than ten million dollars.

Can you do it?
hmmm...
I wonder if I could find 50 ten million dollar properties...
 

buddhist

Well-Known Member
I have heard about California!. I will tell you what my friend told me. Her sister moved there after separating from a cheating husband. She moved with her daughter, and I guess Beverly Hills sounded good, so she found a place there. I love this story!. The rent? $4.500 a month. I have never had that much to spend each month on everything.
$4.50, that's outrageously cheap rent!
 

Jeremiahcp

Well-Known Jerk
This is just pretend.

Would you take the half a billion that you must spend in a year or would you settle for one million that you may do what you wish with anytime you want to?

With half a billion I could buy a pile of diamonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So why would I take the million?

And if I took the half a billion and invested every penny does that count as spending it?
 

Electus de Lumine

Magician of Light
You can have a half a billion dollars, but you must spend it all in 365 days. You may not donate any of it to another and you may not buy any property for more than ten million dollars, which means you can't buy a country or your own private island if it will cost more than ten million dollars.

Can you do it?

Since I am not able to donate the money to another I will therefore buy supplies with the money and donate the supplies to the needy and then and save some money for my college and for a rainy day.
 

McBell

mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
Since I am not able to donate the money to another I will therefore buy supplies with the money and donate the supplies to the needy and then and save some money for my college and for a rainy day.
um...
You only have one year to spend it all.

I could do it, no problem.
 
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