# What pointless thing would you do with $50 billion? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 29, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401 "2011-11-29T01:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/1 "2011-11-29T01:44:00Z")
A different version of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14501427#post14501427) thread. So you’ve got $50 billion somehow and since you don’t needs billions, you keep a million dollars for yourself and decide to get rid of the rest of the money. How? In the most pointless way possible. Eat out at a restaurant? Leave a hundred dollar bill as a tip. Guy on the street begging for money? Give him a wad of hundred dollar bills. Mailing a fragile parcel for Christmas? Use hundred dollar bills instead of newspapers to protect the fragile gift. What’s the most pointless thing you can come up with? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/2 "2011-11-29T01:52:44Z")
You can’t beat the classics. Use money to wipe your ass, or as kindling for your fireplace. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/3 "2011-11-29T02:08:08Z")
Buy the world a Coke? 🙂 (I feel old…) ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/4 "2011-11-29T02:39:38Z")
buy a 1,000-hectare piece of land, plant lots of hard wood saplings, put up a small tent with an easy chair outside it on the highest point in that area, and spend your days sitting out watching the trees grow. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/5 "2011-11-29T02:45:28Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Buy the world a Coke? 🙂 > > (I feel old…) \ _ **Never** _ mention that commercial a-_gain_!!:mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/6 "2011-11-29T02:59:36Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > _ **Never** _ mention that commercial a-_gain_!!:mad: \*\*Apollyon \*\*could buy $50 billion worth of airtime on every TV station, YouTube channel, so that every single commerical is the same commercial. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/7 "2011-11-29T03:16:53Z")
President-elect Pauly Shore. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/8 "2011-11-29T03:27:42Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > \ > _ **Never** _ mention that commercial a-_gain_!!:mad: What in the honeybaked hell are you on about? Joe ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/9 "2011-11-29T03:38:47Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > What in the honeybaked hell are you on about? > > Joe [This.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfU17niXOG8) Now I’m in for more than a wet trout, I’d expect. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/10 "2011-11-29T05:41:02Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > \*\*Apollyon \*\*could buy $50 billion worth of airtime on every TV station, YouTube channel, so that every single commerical is the same commercial. At which point I would kick back with a Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/11 "2011-11-29T05:59:28Z")
Stuff hundred dollar bills into bottles, take my boat out (bought for the purpose), let the bottles loose. Hire someone to weave an ornate shirt out of 100s. Wear the shirt to a party, give it to someone that night. Remember to bring a back-up shirt… made out of 50s. Offer a substantial prize for anyone who can bring me Tootsie Roll Pop wrappers with the Indian and the star. Spend a day walking around, pretending to sneeze. With each sneeze, throw out massive amounts of cash to the ground and leave them. Install a secret room/hallway/etc in my house. Get a car (an extra car, of course) with hydraulics - the wild kind I’ve only seen in movies and look preposterously inconvenient. Drive around. Give rides to friends. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/12 "2011-11-29T06:39:44Z")
Start a daily newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/13 "2011-11-29T07:03:38Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > \ > > _ **Never** _ mention that commercial a-_gain_!!:mad: ROFL. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/14 "2011-11-29T07:05:37Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > \*\*Apollyon \*\*could buy $50 billion worth of airtime on every TV station, YouTube channel, so that every single commerical is the same commercial. Nah… though that’d be a goer for: “[You have $50 billion; what spiteful thing would you do?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=629762)” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/15 "2011-11-29T12:00:31Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Start a daily newspaper. And what would you do the following week when all the money was gone? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/16 "2011-11-29T12:09:27Z")
I’d produce a remake of [The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K_Foundation_burns_a_million_pounds), but on a MUCH larger scale. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/17 "2011-11-29T13:33:29Z")
There’s already a [documentary](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/) to help with ideas. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/18 "2011-11-29T16:14:59Z")
One fun way to turn a big fortune into a small one is by racing cars. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/19 "2011-11-29T16:21:25Z")
Build myself a space shuttle. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/20 "2011-11-29T17:49:20Z")
Build a very elaborate hedge maze. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401.md?page=2)