What would you do if you were rich and never had to work again and had total freedom?

Cherea · 2 years

1) Pay off my debts to parents, pay their debts, buy them a house so they can leave me alone

2) Do what I want, which is to travel, go to grad school for literature/philosophy, and work on my own writing

Uncoolio · 2 years

smoke pot. play video games. fap. pretty much the same stuff I do now.

son-of-chadwardenn · 2 years

Assuming we're talking Bill Gates rich I would build a castle. I would also have an airship for a mobile home. I would fund the development of a video game with the depth of Dwarf Fortress but in 3d with a usable interface. I would distribute the game for free. I would wear 19th century formal attire with a top hat and cane. My second home would be in an abandoned salt mine(saw a picture of one in a high school science book, they're impressive.) I would also do all the charity crap.

squidboots · 2 years

I'd garden all day, raise sheep and llamas, process and spin wool, and have lots of cats.

Yeah I'm twentysomething with the soul of a grandma.

gumption · 2 years

Travel the world, go to school for a while, start a small family farm. And I'd probably buy up a LOT of billboard space and fill it up with art instead of ads.

junkmale · 2 years

To be honest I would not rush out and buy brand new car. Maybe some clothes, and basics, then I would fly first class overseas and buy a nice place on the beach. Find some way to make sure my investment is safe. And thats it, live out my days

wacrover · 2 years

I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.

HMSuperb · 2 years

Start my own business, travel, find a beautiful wife that I love, learn a new language, read a book, write a book, write a poem, cry over my newly written poem, cry on my money, fap on my money, burn my money, cry over my fire, burn my wife, eat my wife, eat my tears, die.

frank26080115 · 2 years

Learn to pilot a VTOL airplane, then buy that plane, and then take my friends on a tour around the world, piloting my new plane myself.

skagvark · 2 years

Water.

Assuming that rich means lots and lots of money and not just comfortably off, I'll be creating water-saving solutions.

The whole centralised storage (dams) and distribution of water astounds me; there are countries that have tied up more than 90% of their water supplies already, and it all goes into this inefficient system. Whole rivers are channelled into central points, purified, and pumped long-distance at great cost.

This centralised system wasn't designed to cope with the changes in weather either (bigger, but less frequent storms, meltwater drying up, severe drought interspersed with flooding etc), so better ways to manage water must be found.

I would love to fund thousands of small local research projects where local solutions to the water-based problems are found. Not fund the systems, but rather fund the research, educate, give the expertise; find ways that people can make money out of taking care of their own water.

If it doesn't fund itself it will never work in the long run anyway.

[deleted] · 2 years

I'd start an animal shelter or take over one that was run down in the area.

I think I'd also look into lobbying the government for laws that would list the ingredients to everything like they do with food; household cleaners and shampoo and all that stuff.

[deleted] · 2 years

I would have someone iron my sheets.

Nice, clean, crisp, lavender-scented sheets are heavenly.

ModernRonin · 2 years

Robotics. It's twenty-fucking-ten, I want goddamn humanoid robots already!

Firrox · 2 years

Become a polymath.

[deleted] · 2 years

I would stop day dreaming about what I would do if I were rich.

fresca · 2 years

Bartend. Or just work in general. Man it would be boring to not need money.

happybadger · 2 years

I'll speak as the opposite, a silverspooner who dreams of poverty.

There is no such thing as freedom. Even if you jump off a building, you're still a slave to gravity. When the poor dream of being rich, they don't take into consideration the culture of wealth. Instead of becoming a slave to your debts, you become a slave to your image, brands, investments, and unwarranted self-importance which eventually eats away every last bit of your humanity until you're nothing but a consumer.

I'm quixotic, so my idealism blinds me to the bad side of poverty, but the freedom that the poor see in the rich is the same freedom that the rich see in the poor. Wealth is nothing but a two-headed coin.

That being said, I agree with Wacrover. Two chicks at the same time, man.

whatthedude · 2 years

Give away everything I have now (minus my books, movies, clothes, cats), pay off my debts, leave Houston and it's shitty humidity behind, and start a new life in Portland, OR. It's where I'm hoping to eventually move anyway, but it'd definitely be a bit easier if I were rich.

Senethior459 · 2 years

Be smart with my money. Get a job anyway, so I have something to occupy my time.

Build a quantum computer.

-___- · 2 years

I think I'd try to write novels.

TheBigLewinski · 2 years

Finish my documentary well ahead of schedule. Then complete scripts for a couple of feature films that have been churning in the back of my overworked head for years. Then shoot the films.

If those were successful, I'd hire Bethesda Studios to create a sandbox video game based on the Blade Runner world, but with the game depth of Elder Scrolls IV.

Intel81994 · 2 years

lots and lots of chicks

i hear they like money

Noche · 2 years

One doesn't need to be rich to have total freedom. True wealth comes from the inside.

f3nd3r · 2 years

I would work on an anti-aging cure, and then would work with gene therapy.

[deleted] · 2 years

Get a Yacht and travel the world by myself.

CampusTour · 2 years

I read once about a rich guy who bought himself an old prop-driven fighter plane, got permits for the machine guns to go on it, and does strafing runs in the desert on targets he's set up. Sounds like a good deal.

barfbarffart · 2 years

become a crippled alcoholic

Malhavik · 2 years

Whatever, whenever, however I want.

barbehque · 2 years

one thing i've always wanted to do is buy a hummer and reinforce it with metal bars all around it.

this way, if i'm every driving and see someone acting like a idiot on the road with their fancy bmw or something, i'll just hit their car and happily pay for any damages and for however much they feel the need to sue me for, just to teach them a lesson about driving like an asshole

wootpro · 2 years

I would set up several different funds with money managers to manage my wealth. Then I would continually donate money to education, the Pirate party, and other causes that mean something to me. I would travel a lot and read while traveling. I would meet a lot of people on my travels, hear their stories, and share my own. I also may also take classes in photography, design, marketing, and business because that's something I'm interested in that I haven't had time or the means to do yet.

ayeeFOOL · 2 years

[deleted] · 2 years

Fund a lot of research. Hopefully something would be worthwhile and it could make more money. Then I would set up some kind of foundation/business and leave them with the left over money and a mission statement when I die.

[deleted] · 2 years

I'd make sure my family was taken care of, and then I'd do what I want. I'd run off with my SO, and we'd travel the world and see every country together for the rest of our lives.

mikemcg · 2 years

Do volunteer work when I'm bored and feeling productive. Otherwise? Drink and hang out with friends. Maybe see the world and make foreign friends. I'd just live.

[deleted] · 2 years

I would:

Build my own house, go to culinary school, get a reader card at the Library of Congress, brew tons of beer, spend a summer or two at the beach surfing, learn to live off the land, live like Thoreau in Walden, sail a boat, be a race car driver, take my GF around the world, learn other languages, learn piano, learn photography, ride my bike across America, ride a motorcycle back to where I started, canoe the Florida trail, drinking the finest wines and scotches, make the finest wines and scotches.

And whenever I get run down I would retire to my house in the Caribbean or my cabin the mountains, depending on my mood and the season.

[deleted] · 2 years

I would be buying an RV and small cargo trailer and touring europe's many racetracks on my set of racebikes. This is my dream.

[deleted] · 2 years

Help people until I can do no more and go fishing.

glasspenguin · 2 years

I'd buy some gorgeous rural land, and then donate it all. It would go to nature conservancy organizations, who would ensure that the land would stay wild.

And then I'd sit around eating really expensive chocolate.

dirtymoney · 2 years

relax, man. Relax. That's what I'd do.

Well, first of... I would tell off my boss. Wait about a year & then pay to have the place burned to the ground.

Then I would buy myself a nice large amount of acreage. Build a small, unassuming house on it. ANd then have a nice fully outfitted bunker built underneath. The whole property would be fenced in with motion sensing cameras all over the property that would alert me to any tresspassers. The small house on top would be a decoy.... I would live inside the bunker. The bunker would be completely secure. I'd buy a couple of cars ( a 4x4 vehicle, and maybe some classic sports car) and class C RV ... then I'd travel the country metal detecting. I'd also travel europe metal detecting as well.

ps. I would track down & exact my revenge upon every single person that has ever done me wrong. :|

tandembandit · 2 years

I would purchase a nice, reliable, digital SLR camera and maybe take a few classes on photography to get better, then I'd buy a copy of 100 Places To See Before You Die (or whatever the closest thing to such a book is) and then see them. Then I would buy a car, something fun to drive but not too flashy. With that car, I would travel to each state capital in the 48 I could drive to (I'm too lazy to drive through Canada, you see) via each major highway (20, 30, ...80 and then back through the 15, 25, etc.) and just keep traveling, visiting whatever I wanted.

In short, I just want to travel and take pictures without worrying about affording gas.

[deleted] · 2 years

hire round the clock personal trainers. I'd spend some time each day exercising, meditating, playing an instrument, flying airplanes, and learning.

datruesurfer · 2 years

Hm...

Repay all the money my parents spent on my college tuition
Buy really fast car that doesn't run on gas (probably a Tesla Roadster)
Buy a private jet, learn to fly, take my friends and family on a tour around the world.

notjawn · 2 years

Find a part time job where I got to interact with different people all the time.

redditchic · 2 years

Buy the whole world. If I don't have cash to buy off the whole world, then I would still work, coz' I ain't rich enough.

I already have more than freedom that should be given, so nothing would actually change drastically. I'll be the same then, as I am now. My life sounds boring,eh?

[deleted] · 2 years

this is almost out of sight and out of mind. 90% or more of what i think of day to day are how to get rich. so if i was suddenly rich, there would be a big-ass void in my life.

i would definitely get a personal trainer and stay away from nachos.

brainburger · 2 years

I guess I would do lots of degrees. A private jet would be good too.

Brainsalad · 2 years

Move to London.

Prius · 2 years

Cure death. Then do...something. Build a time machine, maybe.

transitionality · 2 years

1) Get a vasectomy.

2) Fuck the unending parade of hot, nubile young whores that would inevitably fall in my lap.

3) When some of them return, claiming that they got pregnant from me and looking for a payout, sue the fuck out of them and collect every last dime they have for fraud.

4) Profit!

mrdelayer · 2 years

Two chicks at the same time.

Fuckin' A.

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