# You're mega wealthy - what's your mega purchase? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795 "2015-12-31T03:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/121 "2016-01-06T20:50:16Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > OMG. Are you secretly my 9-year-old daughter? Because that’s what I’d be forced to buy with my mega billions, at threat of never ever being forgiven by her if I didn’t. :rolleyes: I think I’d have to buy that for my 30 year old daughter. As for me - I’d buy myself a penthouse at top of the Empire State Building like Doc Savage had. And build the elevator direct to my secret garage in the basement. A nice yacht, good for both oceans and rivers, to let me travel without packing. And definitely a trip to space in a private rocket for me and my wife to initiate the zero-G club (assuming that married pair of astronauts hasn’t - I’ll be happy with number two.) And put some real money behind private space travel. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/122 "2016-01-06T20:55:27Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I think I’d have to buy that for my 30 year old daughter. … Wait a minute! Are you saying you’d buy gnoitall’s 9 year old daughter for your 30 year old daughter? That’s an … interesting … idea. Do you have a newsletter? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/123 "2016-01-06T21:57:27Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Wait a minute! Are you saying you’d buy gnoitall’s 9 year old daughter for your 30 year old daughter? That’s an … interesting … idea. Do you have a newsletter? Hey, people with horses need slave labor who will muck out stalls for free just to be close to the animals. And maybe get to ride them if they are really good. You didn’t know about the horse slave labor industry? ETA: Whips are involved, if you must know. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/124 "2016-01-06T22:40:40Z")
Since you stipulate that I’ve already covered all the flush toilets, clean water, mosquito nets, schools, hospitals, medicines, medical research and housing, and you further stipulate I’m just ridiculously rich, there’s one thing left. Buy every media outlet Rupert Murdoch owns, and uh, change the format. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/125 "2016-01-06T23:04:00Z")
I fund a tax-free endowment to help people like me with about 80% of it, and keep the rest. ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/126 "2016-01-07T01:28:30Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > In order to see the Steelers in the playoffs every year, I’d buy > the Bengals and the Ravens, and manage them like the Browns. 1. I’d buy the Steelers and trade every decent player and all draft picks to the Ravens…😃 2. Buy a private island in the South Pacific with a big, beautiful house and gorgeous beaches… 3. Populate it with a harem… OK, so not very original, but you people have given me some good ideas as to how I will spend my Powerball winnings tomorrow… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/127 "2016-01-07T01:51:05Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > I fund a tax-free endowment to help people like me with about 80% of it, and keep the rest. I’ve been around here long enough to know that it wouldn’t take you 10 years to get that particular ball rolling. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/128 "2016-01-07T04:23:40Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I hate flying. > > I’m building my own custom train, along with constructing a private (and very secure) high-speed railway connecting me — and only me — to all of the nation’s major cities. The train has a car for transporting vehicles, a kitchen where personal chefs recreate all of my favorite meals, luxury accommodations for all of the staff to keep them happy, a gaming car, a theater car, and separate living quarters for the cats (because they’re annoying to travel with). Yes. I was just thinking about all the places I want to see, but also how much I hate flying. And the chefs would make low-fat but delicious versions of everything I like. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/129 "2016-01-07T05:41:04Z")
I’m leaning towards an island in a temperate climate with a dormant volcano in which to construct my, um, residence. Or rehabbing a retired underground Minuteman compound. Maybe with a nice modest Cape Cod built on top of the entrance. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/130 "2016-01-08T01:45:37Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Goodness. She’s 43. What a shriveled old hag, amirite? Preach it, sister! ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/131 "2016-01-08T01:57:21Z")
Finance the completion of Neuschwanstein Castle, in the original intended style. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/132 "2016-01-08T06:23:57Z")
Aside from the absolute top of the line everything to the NTH computer, I’m not that much about toys and things that are expensive. I’d have a kitchen full of fantastic equipment…I’d totally go crazy in the Cook’s nd Williams Sonoma catalogs, but that’s all small stuff that just adds up. Aside from that, my expenditures would be about property, probably something utterly fantastic in Santa Barbara that had, or I would build, both indoor and outdoor pools, huge, gorgeous, and heated. I would have an absolutely AMAZING personal assistant whom I would pay an enormous salary to so he/she would be happy, say triple the going rate. I would also have a couple of amazing overpaid housekeepers. And then I would entertain… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/133 "2016-01-09T20:07:06Z")
Hmm, after all the boring/responsible stuff… I’d buy myself 7 Ferrari F40’s, my dream car, one for every day of the week, all in _slightly_ different shades of red, except for one in black, and one in British Racing Green, as I like the dichotomy of an Italian supercar in British livery… I’d buy a bunch of Toyota priuses and find novel ways of destroying them, because I _HATE_ the frakking prius… Prius skeet? PULL! Prius demolition derby? Check How many rounds from a minigun can a Prius handle? Pack a Prius with black powder and light the fuse, see if I can make it truly disappear It goes without saying that my backyard shooting range (with up to 1 mile as maximum distance) would have priuses as targets Obviously, I’ll have a whole room (“weapons bunker”) filled with my favorite Class II automatic weapons An entire tropical island of my very own, complete with exotic attractive female companionship, there completely voluntarily I’d get my pilot license, fixed and rotary wing Big donations to the NRA, because it pisses off the nannystaters… ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/134 "2016-01-09T22:12:07Z")
I’d want Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a hard boiled egg. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/135 "2016-01-10T00:07:12Z")
A 6000’ concrete runway on some desert land north of here. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/136 "2016-01-10T02:26:15Z")
I’d pay writers to think up questions to ask on a message board filed with people who intimidate me (although I’m so rich I’d never admit to being intimidated). Then I could curl my toes and say with glee, “Well, if You’re so smart how come I can buy that and You Can’t? Neener-neener!” Then again, it presupposes that the mega rich are childish, egotistical, and lack boundaries/self-control. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/137 "2016-01-11T18:46:57Z")
Buy the Washington Redskins. Change the name to the Washington Honkies. The team logo would have the same face, but with white skin, yellow hair, and a red background. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/138 "2016-01-11T20:26:28Z")
An island and/or a mountain. Lots of land. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/139 "2016-01-12T09:03:50Z")
Just one of my purchases: a Tianhe-2 supercomputer. Among the things I’ll do with it is challenge anyone to an online chess match. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795/140 "2016-01-12T19:42:22Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > An island and/or a mountain. Lots of land. That island Tom Hanks was stranded on – win win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-mega-wealthy-whats-your-mega-purchase/741795.md?page=8)