# What's the dumbest/worst "Next Million Dollar Idea" someone has shared with you?

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**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-worst-next-million-dollar-idea-someone-has-shared-with-you/992447 "2023-11-01T23:19:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-worst-next-million-dollar-idea-someone-has-shared-with-you/992447/104 "2023-11-03T12:54:22Z")

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> [@TokyoBayer](#):
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> My brother, until he finally went completely crazy, was the master of the genre.
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> He was convinced that he could build a better private jet than anything out in the market. He wasn’t an engineer, but had read a number of books on aircraft design, although he had to skip the math because it was too complicated. But he knew how to design a better jet.
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> There were so many over the years, and I’ve pushed them out of my mind because it was too frustrating talking to him about it. He would make up his mind and nothing you said could make him listen.
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> He had hundreds of ideas, but never built a single one, let alone a working model or even detailed drawings.

You might be surprised if you knew how many people have been carrying an idea along with them throughout their lives. They get frustrated because they have thousands of hours of thought invested into something and when they attempt to talk about it they are usually talking to someone who hasn’t given it any thought at all and they are thinking on the fly. I can relate to your brother in some respects because I have done the same thing with the concept of collaboration starting in my early 20’s. Every couple of years I will delete hundreds of pages of work in an attempt to erase it from my mind but it just keeps coming back. It is impossible to talk about because no one else has given it that much thought.

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