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[–] Typewar 13 points 2 days ago

Continue doing what I love without having to worry about money being an issue

[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Destroy capitalism.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People have found these and gotten arrested over exploiting them, let's be real

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Only the small fry. Bezos, Musk, Saud royal family and many more are still at large

[–] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't hear about the ones that haven't been caught yet

[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Right? Don't go hog wild. Live slightly above your current means. Don't hoard, just... Cruise, be chill. Nobody needs millions. Nobody needs hundreds of thousands. You just need enough to do the simple things you enjoy without being excessive.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Duplicate money.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds cliche but I would have a massive animal sanctuary. Our domesticated animals shouldn't be left alone. They need us as much as we need them.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With a duplication glitch, wouldn't both technically be the same chick?

Twins is nice, duplicates is a trip

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Hack the planet!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago

Everyone's kickstarter will meet every goal. All of them. Even the bad ideas. 😈

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 56 points 2 days ago

Not ask the internet what I would do – revealing that I’ve found an infinite money glitch.

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 54 points 3 days ago

Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One guy already found this hack and created a shitty “AI” company

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago
[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we'll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!!

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You'd better start with some pretty hefty security for yourself cause your have assassination attempts pretty quickly.

Welp... care for a job as security advisor?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

You could create hyper inflation destroying modern currencies causing them to have to pay your assassins in gold, which would be a major pain in the ass if you didn't already physically own gold.

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd house and feed the homeless, rescue a SHIT LOAD of farm animals, and generally be a good person. But that's why I'll never be uber rich.

Username checks out and I'd like to express my support for this :)

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago
  • Tell absolutely no one.
  • Helping the people who did help me when I was in need of help.
  • Live an simple, boring life.
  • Continue studying what I like (I love learning).
[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 days ago

I'd spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist's house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library's worth of books, and make art/video games all day.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

I'd also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My "car" would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fund my totally nonfictional company by commissioning professional online artists like Panda Paco or Reva the Scarf to make official portraits of all of us totally real people, starting with me, the head beaver.

That's probably the first thing I'd wanna do.

Use the hell out of it.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Probably cause mass inflation and a return to bartering.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago

Well maybe it's too boring and obvious, but... Seize the means of production, distribute equal shares of its ownership to everyone, design a democratic process to decide what should come next.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Keep it to myself and fund projects I like (under the assumption that I could get a million € per h for example)

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Plant crops, sell crops and hold some back to plant next year’s crop.

Real-life infinite money/duplication glitch.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago

That sounds suspiciously like farm work.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

do it before they broke farms in next update

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Too late, they patented GMO plants update is already out. If you try to grow the "natural" plants, they just get killed by the pesticides, also sold by the same company that sells the GMO plant seeds. You cannot legally replant the seeds, if they even produce seeds at all. They'd send their goons to threaten you.

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[–] TheV2@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

I'd sell an e-book about this glitch on Amazon and generate passive income!

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it has happened to me.

I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.

I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.

I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more. Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)

[–] SpicyLengthiness@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

If we had lots of time, then it's easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you've lived that long, and you're not rich, you're doing something wrong.

$2 at 7% a year for 50 years = $58.91

$2 at 7% a year, for 500 years = $1,505,863.24

The power of compound interest!

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Something terrible.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

My wallet never would be empty, but just enough to buy a drink or a meal when need it

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Really? Keep it so quiet.

Would do the things to the house that we say we'd do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it's not so obvious. I don't need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.

I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

fund research in high density cities with good public trans. don't pay high but comes with housing, education, food, and other various perks. The housing and research institutes will have no parking.

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