um no... then every freeloader will knock on your door once word gets around.
donate to charity?
they'll sell your name to a mailing list and every shady charity will come looking.
Give some to people, help others etc etc.
Yup. You gave the government money to squander, and you have fuck all to show for it. A beer would have been a better investment.
um no... then every freeloader will knock on your door once word gets around.
donate to charity?
they'll sell your name to a mailing list and every shady charity will come looking.
Above.There are some things which amuse me when it comes to lotteries:
A) How it is more enticing for people when there is a "big jackpot", like it matters whether you could potentially win $300M, $400M or $800M. Those who line up because there is a giant jackpot like $800M, those same people do NOT play when there is "only" $300M or $400M to win? HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY..... facepalm ...
But we just can't live on $10M.
B) A Jackpot is actually proof for the poor odds (which, I think are 1:297,000,000), Jackpot by definition means no-one won shit the last draws...so "logically" speaking, the higher the jackpot, the less people should want to play since it shows them how poor the odds and how difficult winning is...
Heh, greeeed.
C) The worries about how to invest, say, $800M.
At $65K/day for 30 years or so,take the annuity and party like it's 1999.
When I'd win $800M, the LAST thing is worrying about how can I invest it. Seeing that the goal of investing is obviously making profit, some return, or in a worst-case scenario keeping the money without it losing value over time.
However, since I already won $800M, why bother pursuing this? The ultimate goal, "to get LOTS of money" is obviously already achieved Maybe that's the crux of the super-ultra-rich, even when someone is getting $800M they need to "worry" how best to invest it...ironic...
C) The worries about how to invest, say, $800M.
When I'd win $800M, the LAST thing is worrying about how can I invest it. Seeing that the goal of investing is obviously making profit, some return, or in a worst-case scenario keeping the money without it losing value over time.
However, since I already won $800M, why bother pursuing this? The ultimate goal, "to get LOTS of money" is obviously already achieved Maybe that's the crux of the super-ultra-rich, even when someone is getting $800M they need to "worry" how best to invest it...ironic...
This. Who cares at that point? I'd set up a generous trust for my kid, but after that why worry? With that kind of money you could spend something like 50k a day for 40 years before running out. Assuming you stuffed it all in a mattress and were earning no interest at all. Maybe I'll be frugal and limit myself to 30k a day.
Of course people need to invest their money. After taxes and long lost relatives leeching off you, you're lucky if you have $3.50 to your name. That's why most lottery winners ended up broke after a few years...
Of course people need to invest their money. After taxes and long lost relatives leeching off you, you're lucky if you have $3.50 to your name. That's why most lottery winners ended up broke after a few years...
However, since I already won $800M, why bother pursuing this? The ultimate goal, "to get LOTS of money" is obviously already achieved Maybe that's the crux of the super-ultra-rich, even when someone is getting $800M they need to "worry" how best to invest it...ironic...
If I win, I'd buy me an island and have me a hookers farm in a blow plantation, complete with the blow-trees. Then, I'll create a theme park and call it "The Happiest Place On Earth", and sue Disney for a poor imitation of the phrase. ATOTers get 20% discount when visiting my theme park. Now that's what you call win-win-win.
A North Carolina single mom who won a $188 million Powerball jackpot last year pledged to spend it on her kids and church, but so far the biggest beneficiary seems to be "Hot Sauce," her alleged drug dealer boyfriend...
However, since I already won $800M, why bother pursuing this? The ultimate goal, "to get LOTS of money" is obviously already achieved Maybe that's the crux of the super-ultra-rich, even when someone is getting $800M they need to "worry" how best to invest it...ironic...
If all these hookers and blow fanatics are serious it just goes to show you money doesn't buy class.
Read up on the life of one of the biggest Powerball winners so far:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/0...ked-fortune-bailing-out-ex-con-boyfriend.html
Yes, I know it's Fox News. Don't jump to conclusions about me for it. That was the first link on Google and I was feeling lucky.
I wonder what the legal implications would be if 100 forum members won and the person holding the actual ticket claimed it wasn't purchased using lottery pool funds?
The last thing I would even worry about if I won was investing. Stick it in the bank, dont go nuts and live a VERY nice life. Give some to people, help others etc etc.
We have a pool going in at work. If we did win, whoever possesses the ticket, should be prepared that I will be sleeping with them in the same bed until the cash is divided.
Treasury bonds yielding 1% could make you over 300k a year. The only way you would lose your investment is if the country went bankrupt in which the US dollar would be hyper inflated anyway where all those millions would be worth pennies.