If you controlled 10 Trillion dollars

[KG Living Legend]

 What would you do with it, a good cause, not a car collection. All your needs are met at home. What would you do for humanity, the world, the whales, the snails, or the universe, what would you do with ten trillion dollars.

[manl_lui]

build myself a company, buy all necessary resources. Invest some of them

[freshinthehouse]

Where did the ten trillion come from?  Ten trillion would be a pretty big chunk of the world's economy.  If it just appeared out of nowhere it would pretty much cause a world-wide depression b/c it would devalue currency everywhere. 

[Kiorrik]

I'd buy my girlfriend some flowers. Maybe.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

Buy a large cup of hot chocolate at a local cafe.

Tip the rest to the server. 

10 trillion dollars though, jeez can I buy Mars? Because I might do it.

[celtic -_- pride]

i would buy an island. i would take all the willing and best people i know and put us through rigorous survival training specific to that island's needs. clone some of the most fierce predators, still existing that is, like tigers, lions, bears, all depending on the climate, maybe some komodo dragons in a specific section. i have them all implanted with probes in their brain developed by the worlds leading neurologists and biologists that allows me and a select few to control their behavior and use them as defense to intruders. what ever is left will be used to make schools better in the ghetto or something. yea, that's what i would do or is that crazy ?

[fitzhickey]

Buy a ps4, build schools out in the underprivileged suburbs, build larger hospitals and fund global warming research. Then splurge the rest on random acts of kindness 

[KG Living Legend]

Tp's to the last two posters.

[angryguy77]

I'd get rid of electricity and use whale oil.
My furniture would be made out of elephant tusks.
I would hire a few illegals at $2 an hour to do my cleaning and cooking.

And just because I could, I would buy an oil field and light the wells on fire.

[Ogaju]

I think I would buy a state like say one of the Dakotas or something.

I would demolish all the property in the state and build an Estate right in the middle of the state... okay so maybe I would have to settle for an island..

Okay I don't know what I would do...

[fairweatherfan]

Pay off the 20% of the national debt with the highest interest rate, just so everyone would shut up about it for a minute.

Set up a $1 trillion dollar prize for a clean, renewable energy source.  $100 billion for a viable proof of concept and the rest doled out as the tech is implemented worldwide.

Another $2 trillion in grants for infrastructure improvement in America.  $2 trillion for the rest of the world.  Major focus on high-speed Internet and other forms of data transmission.  Another $1 trillion to educational institutions, with an emphasis on vocational training and medical schools.

$100 billion endowment to the Boston Celtics with the mission statement "shoving it in the Laker's faces." and a brief elastic clause of "interpret that however you want, just don't screw it up."

That'd leave around a trillion for me.  I'd probably spend a lot of it on loose cars, fast women, overpriced booze, and random, pointless trips to space.  The rest I'd just waste.

[Ogaju]

Okay I thought about it...

You said I am already good and have everything I want, right? If that is the case I will still BANK about 10 billion for myself.

Then I will set up a foundation with one purpose to rid the world of corrupt politicians that hijack third world economies and contribute to the poverty and suffering of so many of the world's population.

I really don't know if 10 Trillion minus 10 billion will be enough to do that.

[KG Living Legend]

Pay off the 20% of the national debt with the highest interest rate, just so everyone would shut up about it for a minute.

Set up a $1 trillion dollar prize for a clean, renewable energy source.  $100 billion for a viable proof of concept and the rest doled out as the tech is implemented worldwide.

Another $2 trillion in grants for infrastructure improvement in America.  $2 trillion for the rest of the world.  Major focus on high-speed Internet and other forms of data transmission.  Another $1 trillion to educational institutions, with an emphasis on vocational training and medical schools.

$100 billion endowment to the Boston Celtics with the mission statement "shoving it in the Laker's faces." and a brief elastic clause of "interpret that however you want, just don't screw it up."

That'd leave around a trillion for me.  I'd probably spend a lot of it on loose cars, fast women, overpriced booze, and random, pointless trips to space.  The rest I'd just waste.

 That was great. Tp.

[fitzhickey]

Thinking about it 10 trillion is an inconceivable amount of money.

Another thing I would do with as much money I had left over is abolish poverty in 3rd world countries, such as India or many African countries.

Earn a ridiculous amount of medals on the way too 

[KG Living Legend]

 The reason for 10 trillion was so you could think without Limitations. I was hoping for big ideas that could really make an impact on the world.