100 billion: what would you do with that kind of money?
Fortune, fantasies and cynicism. From genocides to the impossibility of changing the world. What would you do with 100 billion?
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100 billion: between genocide and indifference
What would you do if you suddenly had 100 billion euros in shares? The question, posed in a corner of the internet, has drawn answers ranging from the crudest hedonism to the most refined nihilism. Nobody seems to take the fortune seriously.
The first reactions don't beat around the bush: hookers, yachts, a genocide in Africa. The fantasy of absolute power with no sarracena limits. But soon someone points out that the figure is just paper: "Always confusing market value with real wealth." Money in shares isn't liquidity, and selling at a discount is still a lot of cash, but it doesn't change the essence.
Some people already have their life sorted out with five million. The rest is irrelevant. "I'm a man of cheap tastes, luckily." Indifference in the face of abundance.
But the most interesting point comes with politics: end hunger in the third world? Useless, says the most sceptical voice, because if the initiative doesn't come from them, everything goes back to the way it was. Fix Spain? Impossible, because corruption is endemic and Spaniards love it. The conclusion is as disheartening as it is logical: the only way out would be a commando squad to liquidate the traitors, and that's not a plan, it's a confession of impotence.
In the end, the most sensible answer might be the one from the person who says five million is plenty. The rest is for complaining that the world refuses to be fixed. With 100 billion, the real luxury is not having to spend it.
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What would you do if you suddenly had 100 billion euros in shares? The question, posed in a corner of the internet, has drawn answers ranging from the crudest hedonism to the most refined nihilism. Nobody seems to take the fortune seriously.
The first reactions don't beat around the bush: hookers, yachts, a genocide in Africa. The fantasy of absolute power with no sarracena limits. But soon someone points out that the figure is just paper: "Always confusing market value with real wealth." Money in shares isn't liquidity, and selling at a discount is still a lot of cash, but it doesn't change the essence.
Some people already have their life sorted out with five million. The rest is irrelevant. "I'm a man of cheap tastes, luckily." Indifference in the face of abundance.
But the most interesting point comes with politics: end hunger in the third world? Useless, says the most sceptical voice, because if the initiative doesn't come from them, everything goes back to the way it was. Fix Spain? Impossible, because corruption is endemic and Spaniards love it. The conclusion is as disheartening as it is logical: the only way out would be a commando squad to liquidate the traitors, and that's not a plan, it's a confession of impotence.
In the end, the most sensible answer might be the one from the person who says five million is plenty. The rest is for complaining that the world refuses to be fixed. With 100 billion, the real luxury is not having to spend it.
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