# What would you do if money were literally no object **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616 "2022-01-11T23:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/1 "2022-01-11T23:29:32Z")
So Bezos, Gates, Musk, Zuckergerg and Buffett, all died in a misaligned ride on the new space-X capsule and are now on their way to pluto, surprisingly they left you as their sole heir. After doing the usual benevolent things of solving world hunger eliminating disease and cleaning up the planet, you still have a pretty sizable chunk of change and its time to treat yourself. What do you do? To give you the sort of idea of the degree of seriousness consideration I expect in this thread I offer my idea: Hire a team of professional bakers and staff to recreate every baked good made on the British Baking Show, (including any over baking etc.) so that I can sample the offerings as they appear on the show while I am watching them being judged. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/2 "2022-01-11T23:49:31Z")
Hire the actors of all of my favorite movies and television shows to recreate the programs live for my entertainment only. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/3 "2022-01-11T23:51:11Z")
Buy the Washington Football Team. Change the name to the Washington Honkies. Visit the town of Twatt, Shetland, Scotland. Visit the town of Twatt, Orkney, Scotland. Find a worthy gentleman with family roots in both communities. Bribe the Crown to make him a Lord of Parliament. Move to the coast Learn to sail, and to navigate by compass, sextant, and chronometer. Circumnavigate the globe twice, once in a one-man sailboat, once as skipper of a clipper ship. Buy a movie studio. I would probably make Ed Wood and Ewe Boll look like geniuses, but I would try to make something good. Have all of my favorite books printed in Gothic letters on vellum, and illuminated like medieval manuscripts. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/4 "2022-01-11T23:51:36Z")
I would travel all over the U.S. via train, using the Patrón Tequila Express. > **[An exclusive look inside the Patrón Tequila Express | Luxury train, Vintage...](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/463589355375973927/)** > > Aug 8, 2016 - 7 things you don’t know about Patrón’s private rail car (for one, it exists!) If Patrón isn’t willing to sell the car to me, I guess I would have to buy Patrón. Win-win! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/5 "2022-01-11T23:53:35Z")
Buy a country. Croatia is nice. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/6 "2022-01-11T23:55:26Z")
Build a castle. With a garden maze. And secret passages. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/7 "2022-01-12T00:00:02Z")
I’d be a space tourist myself. Then I’d start up all kinds of professional sports teams in various leagues, I love the idea of being a sports-franchise owner. I’d be a movie director and make every whimsical/outrageous movie I’ve ever wanted made. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/8 "2022-01-12T00:07:46Z")
[Already been done:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa) > [@](#): > > Musa made his pilgrimage between 1324 and 1325 spanning 2,700 miles. His procession reportedly included 60,000 men, all wearing brocade and Persian silk, including 12,000 slaves, who each carried 1.8 kg (4 lb) of gold bars, and heralds dressed in silks, who bore gold staffs, organized horses, and handled bags. Musa provided all necessities for the procession, feeding the entire company of men and animals.Those animals included 80 camels which each carried 23–136 kg (50–300 lb) of gold dust. Musa gave the gold to the poor he met along his route. Musa not only gave to the cities he passed on the way to Mecca, including Cairo and Medina, but also traded gold for souvenirs. It was reported that he built a mosque every Friday… > > Because of his nature of giving, Musa’s massive spending and generous donations created a massive ten year gold recession… Indeed, how can you do better than that? Fuck the economy, and give all the money to the poor, so that they be no longer poor. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/9 "2022-01-12T00:09:53Z")
Castles are ostentatious. A large-ish regular house can conceal secret passages just as well. Hell, if it’s on enough property you can have underground tunnels to the guest house(s), to the nearby seaside cliffs, etc. Travel the world on the most luxurious train cars available. Travel the world using the most luxurious airline cabins. A world cruise sounds like fun (since I’ll of course have cleared out that pesky COVID problem first). In one of the top-notch suites on the ship, of course. Before all of that, I’d need lessons in how not to appear nouveau riche of course. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/10 "2022-01-12T00:16:38Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Buy a movie studio. I would probably make Ed Wood and Ewe Boll look like geniuses, but I would try to make something good. > > Have all of my favorite books printed in Gothic letters on vellum, and illuminated like medieval manuscripts. Oh that reminds me of another thing that I wanted to do which was hire some animators and professional voice actors to animate Alice and Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass verbatim out of the Lewis Carol original based the Tenniel illustrations. I love the original Carol books, but have yet to find an adaptation that didn’t heavily alter it to make it palatable to modern audiences, ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/11 "2022-01-12T00:17:57Z")
I’d buy the Dallas Cowboys. Then I’d rename AT&T stadium Tom Landry stadium if his family was OK with that, or back to Cowboys stadium if they preferred it not be named after him. If Jerry Jones insists on remaining an owner, I’d offer to buy him Washington FT and give that to him. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/12 "2022-01-12T00:21:24Z")
Buy up every university, end their sports programs, and make them channel the money into better education and lower costs to students. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/13 "2022-01-12T00:27:11Z")
c’mon, next time ask a hard question: [![](https://external-preview.redd.it/IydbXJWmDWRlzpwtbER826cr7bw7bPWTTL2uQNmRofM.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=78c8e7eb4d024c7e18b020339e6a38c53cfcbdd0) ](https://external-preview.redd.it/IydbXJWmDWRlzpwtbER826cr7bw7bPWTTL2uQNmRofM.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=78c8e7eb4d024c7e18b020339e6a38c53cfcbdd0) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/14 "2022-01-12T00:28:23Z")
I’d buy a nice house and car for myself and my family. My best friends would never want for anything the rest of their lives. (As it is, I routinely throw them $10 here, $20 there to buy food and put money in their gas tanks). I’d buy the NBA’s Indiana Pacers and put a general manager in there who knows what he’s doing. I’d do whatever it takes to make sure Lance Stephenson remains a Pacer the rest of his life. I’d donate a lot of money to the Democratic Party, and endorse a primary challenger for Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema. They’re not doing us any good, so let’s get rid of them. I’d become Donald Trump’s worst fuckin’ enemy. I’d do whatever I could to make sure he never sniffed the White House ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/15 "2022-01-12T00:36:25Z")
I’d buy the entire U.S. government (how expensive could _that_ be?) and then hire one keeper per politician and equip them with cattle prods, to stand over their assigned pol and “prompt” them to “do the right thing”. Battery bill on the prods would be excruciating, but I’d own total battery production on the planet, so, doable. Then I’d move on to organized religion. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/16 "2022-01-12T01:28:56Z")
I’d buy the New York Jets and build them into perennial winners. Not because I’m a Jets fan, but just because it’d be fun to do. After that, well, there wouldn’t be any money left ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/17 "2022-01-12T01:50:48Z")
I’d hire a clandestine gardener and house cleaner, they only show up when I’m out, away, or not around. I’d have a car service that comes when I call, nothing fancy, just always at the ready. I’d visit Bhutan. And support a lot of causes I like. (Then focus on chaotic good deeds, like going around paying off things on layaway for strangers, get their car out of hock, pay off their washing machine, medical debt, student loan, etc!) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/18 "2022-01-12T02:36:21Z")
Save all the animals! ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/19 "2022-01-12T04:37:42Z")
after charity and helping out friends and family. I think I’d bring back canceled TV shows I like. I’d renew shows like Bob and David on Netflix, do another season of the Sarah Connor chronicles, do another season of the Santa Clarita diet, and basically just bring back TV shows that either ended in a cliffhanger or still had good life in them. I’d also start or heavily fund a liberal group to counterbalance ALEC at the state and local level. I’d also buy an NFL team even though I don’t watch football. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/20 "2022-01-12T04:57:36Z")
Solve world hunger, eliminate poverty, develop world peace and save the children! **Weeps and waves hand Miss America style.** Do I win??? 🥰 😇 I’ve actually fantasied about this. I would reunite Kpop group IOI and all the disbanded groups (Pristin, Gugudan, Dia?) the members were in post IOI, and bring them all back together on stage for a series of concerts and comebacks. Oh…and save the children! 😊 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616.md?page=2)