# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/21 "2011-11-29T22:13:01Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > \ > _ **Never** _ mention that commercial a-_gain_!!:mad: > [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > What in the honeybaked hell are you on about? > > Joe > [@Gorsnak](#): > > [This.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfU17niXOG8) > > Now I’m in for more than a wet trout, I’d expect. 😛 Depends on where I **put** that trout. \ ---
**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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/22 "2011-11-29T22:14:15Z")
You know, I’d buy a small radio station–then run it the old fashioned way. Variety of programs & musical styles, DJs, requests, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Floppy\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@Floppy\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floppy_Joe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/23 "2011-11-30T22:20:40Z")
For me, I’d buy, from the U.S. Government, one of their abandoned Titan missile facilities. I’d refurb the entire underground into a palacial dwelling. I’d use the missile silo as a multi-level garage with a bus-sized elevator going through the middle of it. Just sayin’, is all. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/24 "2011-11-30T22:54:43Z")
When I eat out, if the service is good I usually tip above average sometimes up to 40%. With billions, I could see me tipping in the 1000$ range for good service, especially if the waiter is busting their ass during a rush. That would be the only crazy thing I would do with that much money besides buy a couple of WWII tanks and park them all over the lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/25 "2011-12-01T00:30:54Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Buy the world a Coke? 🙂 > > (I feel old…) Now I feel old, AND I have the jingle stuck in my head. Darn you to heck! :mad:😃 I’d sit and fold $100 bills into paper footballs and flick them across the living room. When I got bored with that I’d buy up every other house on my block and have them all knocked down. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/26 "2011-12-01T01:10:31Z")
Now we’re thinking! I’d make umbrellas, raincoats, and tarps out of the new plastic hundred-dollar bills by gluing them together, and sell them on the street for fifty cents. (“Don’t worry. They’re not real money; they’re licensed reproductions.”) I’d pay people to inventory the locations and types of all the rocks on the beaches of the world, and build a digital model of them. I’d buy the trademarks and processes for manufacturing obsolete, but not hip or retro-stylish, products and restart production. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/27 "2011-12-02T22:12:25Z")
I always wanted a jet with a full sized swimming pool in it. Or, I could try running for president as an athiest. ---
**Author:** ![Absolut\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Absolut\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolut_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/28 "2011-12-03T17:34:49Z")
> [@Floppy\_Joe](#): > > For me, I’d buy, from the U.S. Government, one of their abandoned Titan missile facilities. I’d refurb the entire underground into a palacial dwelling. I’d use the missile silo as a multi-level garage with a bus-sized elevator going through the middle of it. > > Just sayin’, is all. Already available and you can get a nice one already furnished like it’s the Queen of Englands palace for a cool $5,000,000. This leads to the question of what will you do with the other $49,950,000,000? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/29 "2011-12-03T17:43:15Z")
Buy the Washington Redskins. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401/30 "2011-12-03T19:35:52Z")
New York subway tokens for everybody!\* \*Everybody but New Yorkers, that is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pointless-thing-would-you-do-with-50-billion/604401.md?page=1)