Honestly? Petition the government to establish a tax function that starts at 0% and approaches 100% the more income you make. So by the time you’re making like 5 million a year, that 5 millionth dollar is taxed at like 99.9%. And make that a fucking constitutional amendment, so rich assholes couldn't change it. And make it illegal to use your stock as collateral for a loan, or just consider loans as income. And capital gains count. Basically guarantee that the 1% actually pay into the system they take so much from.
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I would petition the government to make lobbyism illegal. Maybe this could be the start for cracking down on corruption more successfully...
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I'm about to participate in a medical study. Hopefully the treatment is so successful that it cures me and everyone else suffering the same and similar conditions. And hopefully I'm not part of the control group.
I would do the same thing I do with rare, single use items in video games (Think the Master Ball). I would save it indefinitely in case there is a time that I really need it in the future. I would die having never used it.
I would win the lottery jackpot, of course.
Congratulations! You win one million, but only 400k after tax. Your relatives and friends won't stop sounding you now.
You can set up a trust and have a lawyer accept it to keep you anonymous, even in public winner states. Obviously you buy the ticket when it’s at 1 billion+. Now you invest it after taxes and live off 20 mill+ yearly yield.
You start a hands off small business to launder your own legal money. This is how you explain to your family that you were able to build a small modest home at least an hour away - just far enough to be inconvenient but not impossible for family to visit. Your real home is a custom built stone castle just over the hill in your back yard. You build a tunnel connecting them in case family drops in unannounced.
Or just do the first part and fake your own death. Depends on your relationship with family and friends.
Yeah that works for me. You can DM me for payment information
Sometimes it's 30 mio around here, and a lottery win goes tax free.
Raise healthy, emphatic and intelligent kids.
If I manage that, everything else can go to hell, and I would still be happy and content in life.
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Become governor and Make Florida Freaky Again. Unwind the gerrymandering. Install my cabinet of freaky progressive politicians who want the state to have clean beaches, public transportation and less need to drive. More tax money to clean up our mess, and stop fighting people who just want to be themselves. Expand Medicare. Just work to bring balance to the force in general.
Get those MaFFA hats ready
To pass away gently, naturally, and not inconvenience anyone.
There are a select couple I would like to inconvenience, but it is highly unlikely they will care about my death at all.
Well I've never done a single thing toward this effort, but when I was a kid I wanted to have a unit of measure named after me. Like James Watt, Alessandro Volta, or Ted Megabyte.
Or the Katie Couric!
I'd like to be able to donate liver to my dad.
Have you looked into donation chains? Often a ton of people who are willing to donate to somebody but can't will queue up and wait until a compatible match enters the queue and potentially set off a chain reaction of donations.
It's him unfortunately. He started feeling unwell 3 weeks ago, had a heart attack like event last week, turns out undetected terminal liver cancer, too unwell for any treatment. It sucks, but every day he has left is a gift.
lead an anarcho-communistic revolution
too bad you didn't wish for successful governance!
No wishing for extra accomplishments
Ditto
I would like to succeed in choosing the correct lottery number on a record high lottery.
Winning the lottery
Humanely overthrow the bourgeoisie and do an international proletarian revolution
Curing all my medical conditions.
Write a death metal song that brings peace and unity among all people and governments in the world, that every single person on the planet wholeheartedly loves to sing and dance/headbang to.
I hope my bussiness succeeds and that I don't ever need to go back working to someone else. Only been one month so far so too early to tell.
Build aligned seed AI.
To have one job I find enjoyable, creative, and slightly challenging that gives me enough income that I can enjoy a stress-less life.
Any cause I desire to see go through, will go through and we'll have a positive change in the world from it.
Make my family happy.
Establish world peace and universal economic stability
Win 100million in the lottery obviously
oh darn. reading the title I thought it was one thing you could repeat that would always succeed. Like always hit the bullseye in darts or such.
That's a good idea too. Probably would be a lot of gambling related answers to that one as well, like how everyone here wants to win the lottery.
I was actually asking the question more to reframe how we think about our one shot to live our lives. How should I be spending my time if I could get my shit together? And I think the repeatable question has a similar value: if there's one thing you should be practicing and investing time in, what should it be?
I have actually thought of that from that perspective sorta. I mean my answer would be a gamblng one but I knew this woman whos father made her and her sister get hair cutting certs when they were in high school and then in college she cut hair for cash and did it every so often throughout her life including her kids. It made we kinda wonder if it would be good to get a varitey of things like that when young. massage therapy, hair dressing, know an instrument or sing and such.
This decision.
Encouraging other people to contribute to my favorite charity. I'm going to visit them again, and I will of course lavish them but they can't really succeed with just me.
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