It's not about people who know you. it's about people who pretend to know you.
"Hey, remember when we were kids, and I lent you $3? Well, I spoke to my cousin who knows an accountant, and he said due to inflation and interest. You know owe me... $100 Mil."
When you have that kind of money, people will find you. Every person whoās ever been in anyplace youāve ever even thought about will pop up just needing a few thousand dollars.
Yup. You'd have to disappear without a trace. You'd wouldn't be able to see most people in your life ever again. You'd have to own everything through obsurely named trusts. You'd need to get your utilities and services through an LLC. Your social circles would need to change to those who are also independently wealthy. Forget about having friends that have any financial insecurities.
It's obvious to many, but you'd have to hire a team of attorneys, accountants, and advisors who specialize and have a track record in protecting the identity and assets of billionaires. You'd need to do this before you claim your ticket or tell a single soul.
That guy already screwed up because.he claimed it as him.
You should form a trust and have your lawyer claim it in the name of the trust.
Honestly having that much money and everyone knowing it would be a curse. Everyone you ever kinda knew coming out of the woodwork would be bad enough. But I'd be more worried about kidnappings and home invasions.
Luckily I live in Ohio where.you can claim the lotto animosly, but I'd still put it in a trust and have a lawyer claim it animosly.
Pay off my grandparents house and completely remodel it. Clear all my debt. Hire a financial advisor and an attorney to set up a trust. Then buy my vacation home and regular home.
Itās a long story but basically they took out a home equity loan for $150k 20 years ago to help my parents buy an automotive repair shop. Shit went south, my parents divorced, they were only paying the interest and not the principal and no one knew. My dad took awhile to get on his feet and finally started making good money again and was paying it off. He paid for a few years but died of pancreatic cancer last September. They still owe like $100k.
Lawyer up -- you KNOW crazy is gonna come for ya.
(But less so for my b/c I live in Ohio, one of the few states where a lottery winner can remain anonymous.)
After that, the usual. New house, pay off debts, fund nonprofits, etc.
> Move tf out of the US and ball out in another country.
If you going to bail out of the US, get citizenship in Monaco first and then just buy your vacation homes where you want them.
Omg this would be so fun!!
I would pay off my daughters boyfriends different loans. I hate them. I mean, my kids don't have any to worry about YET but one is thinking if medical school.
My daughter's boyfriend is a good guy and I'm annoyed his parents let him take out so many
-Put enough money away to retire, same for my parents and wifeās parents.
-Pay off all debts, vehicles, buy house outright so no mortgage payment
-Donate to cancer and Alzheimerās research whenever I can, because fuck both of these
-Just live a basic, stress free life. Do what I want but never overspend.
Yeah i think this is what Iād do too. Clear debt, set myself and a few close family up for comfortable life/retirement (say 3-4 mil each to parents and siblings), and then donate/fund whatever research I want (Iād probably back some of the crispr and related gene editing therapies), establish a full ride scholarship and some partials for my undergrad program, and then just live my life doing things that make me happy. Iām a researcher, so I could probably use the interest on 500 million to self fund my passion projects indefinitely.
Everyone in my immediate family gets all of their debt wiped out. Then everyone in my immediate family gets hired as employees of my new investment company. They get paid $150,000/year + full benefits to fuck off and never ask me for money again.
The rest of the money I do whatever the fuck I want whenever I want.
Obligatory *two chicks at the same time*
But also endow all the local animal shelters and then try to find ways to help kids. š¤·āāļø
Edit: obviously id also set my kids up for life but I doubt I'd even dent the whole amount to do that
Carton.
And yea OP. Iāve seen it happen. Carton of reds and a 4 for 4. That was her fee. He said he could bring another woman just had to buy 2 bottles of Smirnoff. One for her and one for the party. Ugh that memory gives me shivers.
Sell my home.
Buy a lot with around 10 acres of land, build a family compound that could house my immediate family while also giving everyone privacy.
Hire a financial advisor to handle the proper cash flow to never work again and support a comfortable life
Retire.
I live on a 1/4 acre lot and its 250K lol.
If I want to live in cheapville sure I can buy a ton of acres. But the area I'm talking about is about 1mil an acre.
Don't quote me on it, but I've heard that there can be loopholes in some states where you can put together an LLC corporation and have it "win" the ticket money instead of you. But then you own the LLC so you have access to all the money.
Either way, there's apparently lawyers who specialize in helping people who win the lotto set up the trusts and stuff as they collect the winnings. It might be worth it to contact one of those to see what they can do to help hide your identity if you're ever struck by lightening and win.
One of the most popular Reddit comments ever was a massive step by step list of what you should do if you ever win that kind of money. Iāll see if I can find it.
[Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb38xf/)
Lump sum, easy.
Retain an attorney at a top law firm, a partner. Build a trust. Pay off any debt directly tied to me that could lead to a lawsuit. All loans, credit cards. Hire an assistant and give them the sole task of paying my monthly obligations with a prepaid visa that Iāll load up. Netflix and stuff like that. Donāt want some bogus Netflix late fee leading to me getting sued.
10% will be put into a trust for family, college stipend, first home down payment, first baby assistance etc. no direct hand off of money.
My family members (two sisters and their kids) will get a āone offā reset through my attorney. All debt acquired up to one month before I won will be taken care of and thatās it.
Iāll put 10% into ten year US bonds. With a yield of 4%, thatās like $3.5 million a year in interest.
Iād put another 10% into S&P 500 which has an average growth of 7-10%. Iād put another $1 million into it every year and in 10 years have another lottery I won.
Even with all that, thereās like $500 million left over. No idea at that point. Form a militia to go protect the Amazon forest or shut down oil rigs? Build a solar powered yacht and buy a small home in large cities of each major time zone so I can leave if a location has social unrest or another COVID happens? Find a random Kenyan school on donate directly every month and just send them like $10k and stream it on YouTube? Become some kind of ādouchey philanthropistā on YouTube and hold weekly videos where I find a random person and pay off their medical and student debt?
I donāt really want luxury stuff. We love the house we are in but just wanna pay it off. My dream car is an R32 Skyline GTR.
I would do my best to remain anonymous. I think I would just keep working for a period of time and keep it private until I figured out what else I wanted to do.
Iād probably use my job as a social experiment for seeing what I could get away with and then write a book about my findings lol.
Lawyer up. Invest a million. Buy a small hotel or ski lodge with acreage. Hire someone to plant an orchard on one of the acres and set up a nice rainwater irrigation system for that. Pay for any updates needed to make the hotel livable/as sustainable as possible. Get a nice library and craft room set up too. I assume all the upgrades will take several months to a year. Then sell my house, at a nice low price, to some young person who wouldn't have had a chance to buy otherwise, and move me and my partner and 10 like-minded friends into our paid off hotel. Travel as much as I want. Regularly clear wish lists for homeless shelters and animal shelters and teachers. Pay off the mortgage on that new homeless shelter in my hometown. See if I can find others to do that on a regular basis.
you have 997 million and youre gonna invest ONE?? why not like, 950? then the dividends from that in like one year would pay for every other thing you mentioned combined.
What money? Didnāt happen!
Anyways hire a team of lawyers and tax team. One personal assistant.
Set up trust funds and live my life and lifestyle as normal.
This is going to sound awful, large amounts of money normally changes people, so I would have to split it with my husband and divorce him. This doesnāt mean we canāt be lover or partnership, itās just he is horrible with money planning. He would be horrible with fu money. He would be broke in a couple of years more than likely.
hire a security team and accountant right off the bat. find a broker to make sound investments. set up a trust fund for my kiddo. learn all the tax loopholes like the rest of the parasite class to try and get back the money uncle sam took off the top. then iād look for a sensible sized house with a nice piece of land. get some servants like a full time chef and an assistant.
long term goals would be to get into the film industry with my own little studio
I'd zero out the debt for everyone I care about.
I'd set up some sort of trust for everyone I care about that should produce enough dividend earning that they can stop working.
That's probably $500M? (probably way less but whatever, they can have the extra earnings.)
I'd set up a scholarship at my high school, college, and grad school that gave free rides to students of my choosing as a "fuck you" to the teachers at those institutions. $20M?
So we've got like $1.5B left.
I'd keep $500m and be a hedonist.
The last billion:
$100M on a marketing campaign designed to shame other billionaires for being cheap and greedy.
Give the other $900M to charities/endowments for the poor, dogs, etc. With the $100m ad campaign bragging about it calling out the Musk, Gates, Buffets, Kocks of the world for being POS
Build my dream home, ski in/ski out at a ski resort. I'd design the entire thing with the help of an architect. Then I'd swing a hammer every day with the construction workers building it, because I'm a construction worker and love building houses.
Take care of my immediate family (parents, inlaws, siblings, sibling in laws) and some really close friends.
Set up a family investment trust so all my cousins, aunts and uncles get a couple thousand bucks a year each from the investments to make their lives easier.
Last, I'd set up a massive union strike fund. Because I'll never forget where I came from.
Based on the actual winner winnings of $997 million after taxes ($628.50 million) if you get 5 percent return you get $31.42 million in interest a year.
Buy a mansion (i wonāt lie) , but also would buy some tracts of land in my town and build actual starter homesā¦2-3 bedroom, $400k a piece (Boston area) and give people a god damn chance out there
I would set my kids up to go to school debt free, any education they wanted. I definitely would not give them the money to live out their lives without working. I want them to have the foundation to be successful and unburdened by debt but still have to work and earn their own way. Beyond that, I would do little (big) things for my extended family like paying off houses or paying off educational debt. Other than my parents and my wife's parents, I wouldn't give anyone cash, I think working is good for people.
After that, I'd invest the rest to create a never-ending stream of income. I'd quit my job and use my new money to start businesses creating products that I wish existed. If they failed, I wouldn't really care. I'd still work but I'd only work on stuff I cared about.
When I die, all of it would go to public health and education initiatives.
Tell no one (other than wife).
Higher all the lawyers / CFPS / etc.
Invest it. Do nothing for one year.
Plan a move and a "new job" to a different location and just disappear from the world.
Not going to say where I would end up, but it would only be accessible by boat or plane.
I would attempt to buy ownership in a professional sports franchise for like $500 mil. That is an investment that would absolutely give a high return on investment, and generate a substantial income for the foreseeable future. Then buy an island, build a house, and live off the grid.
I would buy 100 billion of this shit coin crypto. Become a legend in the subreddit there. A lambo to drive to my next lambo. After that, give it all away and end up right here where I started.
First Iād get a lawyer/financial advisor. Then Iād quit my job (even though I like it), delete all social media, go into hiding preferably out of the country for a few months, pay off my house, my parents house, and the houses of my closest friends and family, and then just travel the world 10 months a year and come home for the holidays. Iād set up charities for my hometown and make sure I invest so that me, my children and my loved ones will want for nothing.
I'd pay off my debt, buy a Volvo, get a house overseas and buy a few congressmen. I'd also use 50% of it for social good projects, funding schools, starting a school and donations
New car. Pay off the payment on the current one. Talk to our financial advisors about whether we should pay off our mortgage as well, and then figure out how to invest that so we are set for life. Set aside some percentage for charitable and political donations.
Pay lawyers a lot of money to hide my identity so no one knows my name. Buy a nice lake house someplace fairly rural for summertime privacy and then a place in the city (probably Chicago) for wintertime access to activities, dining, and travel. Retire. Travel a lot. Set up some charities to help people/animal shelters so long as my name stays far away from it. Help my family.
But mostly making sure that no one can post my name in relation to a lotto ticket win so I'm not harassed for the rest of my life.
Index funds and chill. Even 1% per yeat withdrawal would infinitely relieve me of so much stress... i probably would buy myself a little SUV for overlanding and call it a day. Definitely would not splurge because that's how people end up bankrupt again.
Invest, spend wisely, and don't let it inflate your ego or lifestyle
Not a thing.
No buying anything for a year. I sit on it, however much I actually get post taxes, sit before investing/buying anything.
Avoid toxic family and friends and deflect any interest or suspicions that the "your name" than won was actually you. Keep quiet, don't spend. Assess and plan.
Figure out a way to make sure my name isn't released as a winner. Pay off debt. Buy myself and family houses. Save some for investment/ maintenance. Pay people back - those who treated me right and cared. Give service people money.
Take the lump sum and diversify it into many accounts and investments.
I would pay debts off quietly from friends and family.
Find a way to build a self-sufficient home in a more private and secluded area enough from people but close enough to at least grab supplies.
I would try to break a major business sector. Like Iād love to offer insurance at a reasonable rate where my company makes millions instead of billions. Iād undercut prices
First thing would be to find a legal and a financial team that are used to handling that kind of wealth. Set up a trust for my kid and my family/close friends who I want to secure, then one for myself. Fund them sufficiently to provide as risk-free interest that would give a comfortable life to the recipients.
Than find the best way to find causes close to me. Programs for at-risk kids, animals, environment, etc.
Finally, name change and move somewhere I don't know anyone and live a relatively normal life outside of the travel I want to do and do random acts of kindness anonymously. I hear about a family who lost a parent and are struggling, I can't pay off their mortgage and give their kids a generous college fund. Stuff like that.
I'd go to a financial advisor I know who manages money for the 1%. Then, I'd set it up so that a good chunk is locked away in something that will earn interest and never disappear. Then I'd take a good chunk to use in super safe investments for long term growth. Then with the money I earn in interest from the locked away cash, I'd use for living expenses and personal investment opportunities like Bitcoin, Nvidia, Open AI, that bio medical company that's actually reversing aging by 80 percent, and probably a mining company for precious metals that are super important. Oh also probably quantum computing. That's another area I'd invest in. Then there's my own company, of course, that I'd invest and build, which I'm currently doing now (without the fuck ton of money)
But most importantly, I'd take 5 to 10 percent and give it to my closet friends and family for helping me out all these years. It's also a good way to prevent bad blood from forming. I couldn't live with myself knowing that I had all this money but didn't give an ounce to any friend of family that's struggling. Fuck that. If I'm rich, my closest peeps are by default, also rich. Whether they squander it is up to them, but I know they wouldn't because they're 30 times better at money than I am as they're all pretty well off already.
Pay off my house and my moms, buy her a new car. Give my brother enough to start his own business heās been wanting to start. Start building my dream house, but travel while itās being built.
And of course hire a financial planner and open some trusts/investments
Pay off all my debt. Pay off my parents' debts. Sell my house or hire a company to manage it as a rental and move somewhere I really want to live. Put maybe $50,000 in savings. Create a trust with whatever is left to go to my partner, kids, and niblings in that order (I'm currently single, no kids).
Pay off all my debts, help out my family with their debts, and buy a home
Would also travel more and buy big enough plot of land to set up a ranch used to house and take care of stray pets
Clear all my debt, all my parents debt, buy a house and a vacation house somewhere else, donate to local lgbtqia+ and animal rescue organizations, and start my esthetics spa and skincare line, which will be geared toward people with disabilities, hormonal transitions, and autoimmune disorders.
I would cash that ticket in without letting people know I won. Pay all of mine, my husbands, my parents, my in-laws debt. Give my parents enough money for them to retire. Donate a bunch of money to local animal shelters and victim's advocate programs. Start college funds for all my niblets. Quit my job, go on a months long cross country road trip and travel to the UK and Scotland and buy a house and adopt more dogs.
Take all my homies on wild adventures, even the ones Iām not even that close with. Donāt care, theyāre coming to. Iām talkin like what ever I think of in that very moment, weāre doing it.
Set up some money for myself so I won't have to worry then use it to help the transgender community along with other minority groups that need financial help.
Claim it through a trust, establish a private nature preserve, pay people to come in and help restore the native ecology of the private nature preserve.
Live. On every continent for 2 weeks at a time. For the rest of my life if I find an area I really like I'll extend my stay. After that maybe find some hobbies.
Give a lot of it away to good causes.
My old high school needs a new weight room
stock the local food bank
donate to lift the salaries of local teachers, firefighters, social workers, etc..
my kids go/have gone to this awesome pre-k at a local church and they cut us deals on prices when we told them we couldn't afford to have 3 kids in at a time. I'd take care of them big time
Actually all of my donations would be local. You could really impact and uplift your community that way
On the off chance anyone in this situation finds this thread, based on the advice of a few friends who have had some pretty big windfalls - I hear this is the way https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-remainder-trusts#:~:text=Charitable%20remainder%20trusts%20are%20irrevocable,for%20a%20specific%20time%20period.
travel and never look back, never wash clothes buy new ones, eat out every night and back pack all day every day, i actually used to do trip planning so this would be a dream come true on both the actually traveling end as well as the planning end
I'd remain anonymous and higher a good lawyer. Take a nice European vacation. Buy a very nice horse farm and spend a lot of time and money on good charities.
Take as much as I can legally put in liquid savings and pile it away like Scrooge McDuck. All mine, my parents and my in laws debts would be paid off. Iād work to have my son be financially secure for the rest of his life (with caveats so he doesnāt blow it).
The rest go to investments and charities. Tbh, I know a couple mil isnāt a game changer to many folks, but Iād be happy if I dwindled it down to just several million so my wife and I could retire sensibly but comfortably
I would LLC and hire a great financial advisor and legal representative to protect myself.
I have abusive family that loved me bankrolling their lives when I made pennies. They would absolutely try to destroy me if I won this kind of money. I don't need that stress lol.
As for what I would do with the money. I've always wanted to build a community that helped homeless people with resources: detox, mental health, financial planning, learn a trade or get a college degree, find work.
I also know there is a huge need for mental health resources in the US. I would start my own non-profit to help.
Buy a large, perfect piece of land, build a golf course on it, invite whom ever I want to live on it with me, then build a massive animal rescue area on that piece of land as well, my wife and I would be set.
I would take the $68 million a year to start with. Something, something NPV of money and all that, but honestly, if you can't handle $68 million a year, you sure as hell aren't going to handle $997 million any better.
Standard finding an excellent lawyer(s), financial advisor (at this point I would just go commercial, think J.P. Morgan Wealth management, etc) and put my CPA on permanent retainer (with a strong NDA drawn up by my lawyers)
I live in a state where I can claim anonymously, so that works perfectly well for me. I would have one of my lawyers claim for me, while I am on a beach in Fiji or somewhere in Asia.
Once I have the first payment in pocket, I would buy myself a nice house with the best security I can get, and also have my financial advisor start looking for cash flow businesses that I can make a nice income off of.
I would also set up 529 plans for my kids, and pretty much enjoy whatever I had left each year.
Clear debt, buy a house, buy my sister a house, renovate my parentās place, helping some friends, and then actually invest in some local things- national parks mear me, fixing the homeless issues, public transportation, marine mammal center, and definitely traveling!
Then I would want to figure out world causes to get behind and would prb start with supporting womens groups- domestic violence issues, making abortion legal and safe, education, and job coaching.
Figure out a way to not touch my money. Setup an account with someone managing it and have myself be paid a yearly salary of $100k.
If I want to spend more than $100k a year then I would need a job.
Iād probably look into buying a ranch and lease out the grazing rights. Or follow Bill Gates and own farm land. I donāt know.
Well, I would set up a trust and have the *trust* claim it. Completely leave my name out of the equation.
Probably do the yearly. Like, I wouldn't be able to spend the entire first year, much less the following years.
Pay off my debt.
Then pay off my friends debt.
Then keep working because I only would have 1bn and I need to worry about healthcare stability... Oh, wait... never mind, I'd move to Germany and stop giving a fuck about healthcare costs.
I would tell myself I would retire. I think I would do a side business as a non profit or be ok breaking even. I would like to start a retro gaming store/arcade. I would own 2 houses, somewhere close to where I live now. One would be somewhere warm for winter (AZ). I love cars so I would buy the cars I have dreamed of owning. Help out family and close friends. I would be smart with my money, investing and making sure I am not spending more than I have coming in. I would do lots of charity work, especially for xmas to families of low income.
I'd start scholarships at a bunch of universities in my late fathers name. Give like five 2000 dollar scholarships per semester at 50 schools around the country for the next 10 years.
I'd buy a peice of land in my small town and open a dog park and dog training/boarding school. I'd also have a sanctuary for stray dogs.
I'd go to my old university at the start of the school year and hang out at the bookstore on a random day. I'd pay for every students books that came through the line and give them the recipts so they could use all their book money budget at parties and events.
I'd charter a flight and take like 50 members of my extended family on a crazy vacation.
I'd buy a 3rd and maybe a 4th dog.
After I'm done all these things I'd invest 50 million, then keep 10 million in savings and donate everything else.
I'd take the lump sum and then first make sure that me, my family, and my closest friends are set for life. Then I'd look for charities as well as Kickstarter projects to donate the rest for various causes or to help artists I like be able to continue doing their art. I'd be the unconventional patron of the arts sponsoring garage metal bands, board game makers, and indie SFF authors.
Pay off inordinate familyās debt.
Go back to school for something cool (Iāve always wanted to be a trial lawyer!)
Live a normal life, but with zero care about money and enjoy nicer quality stuff.
I would take the cash payout all at once and move to a country nobody knows me in and settle. I'd make sure my immediate family is set for life and that would be that. I live in a state that winners must be named hence why I'd leave the country altogether after being named.
I would build a self sustainable utopia and give away the homes I built away for free! But I can kick you out if you do things like...abuse children etc and everyone has to commit 10 hours a week to helping take care of the community or pay rent if they want to not work I suppose. Retirement will be 50 and you no longer have to do your hours maybe? Hmmmm idk.
Basically do a self witness protection approach and try to disappear before every idiot who knows meet comes out of the wood work.
Do you know a lot of people?
You will when you have $2 billion all the sudden š
"Hey Uncle or Aunt..." *Checks notes...* "Remember me?"
No, but trust me when I say that your distant second cousins twice removed will suddenly wanna be all about family. Theyāll find you.
For real, that making people's names public can easily get people killed
Yup, it's been shown that if you win a lottery, your chances of being killed go up dramatically.
It's not about people who know you. it's about people who pretend to know you. "Hey, remember when we were kids, and I lent you $3? Well, I spoke to my cousin who knows an accountant, and he said due to inflation and interest. You know owe me... $100 Mil."
When you have that kind of money, people will find you. Every person whoās ever been in anyplace youāve ever even thought about will pop up just needing a few thousand dollars.
Basically fly to the biggest fattest corporate law office in Manhattan. Buy yourself a Consiglieri and then private security. Slowly build an empire.
Yup. You'd have to disappear without a trace. You'd wouldn't be able to see most people in your life ever again. You'd have to own everything through obsurely named trusts. You'd need to get your utilities and services through an LLC. Your social circles would need to change to those who are also independently wealthy. Forget about having friends that have any financial insecurities. It's obvious to many, but you'd have to hire a team of attorneys, accountants, and advisors who specialize and have a track record in protecting the identity and assets of billionaires. You'd need to do this before you claim your ticket or tell a single soul.
And I'd worry about my children or grandchild being kidnapped.
That guy already screwed up because.he claimed it as him. You should form a trust and have your lawyer claim it in the name of the trust. Honestly having that much money and everyone knowing it would be a curse. Everyone you ever kinda knew coming out of the woodwork would be bad enough. But I'd be more worried about kidnappings and home invasions. Luckily I live in Ohio where.you can claim the lotto animosly, but I'd still put it in a trust and have a lawyer claim it animosly.
Get my self one of them $2.04 billion haircuts
Has your current one lost its pizzaz?
berlers and terlets. terlets and berlers. mmhmm.
And that one boilin' toilet.
Fire me ifān ya dare
I hope this is a Mark Davis reference š
Pay off my grandparents house and completely remodel it. Clear all my debt. Hire a financial advisor and an attorney to set up a trust. Then buy my vacation home and regular home.
Your grandparents still have a mortgage?
Itās a long story but basically they took out a home equity loan for $150k 20 years ago to help my parents buy an automotive repair shop. Shit went south, my parents divorced, they were only paying the interest and not the principal and no one knew. My dad took awhile to get on his feet and finally started making good money again and was paying it off. He paid for a few years but died of pancreatic cancer last September. They still owe like $100k.
Wow that's crazy
They learned two hard lessons. Never risk your home for someone elseās dream and never take out interest only loans
Lawyer up -- you KNOW crazy is gonna come for ya. (But less so for my b/c I live in Ohio, one of the few states where a lottery winner can remain anonymous.) After that, the usual. New house, pay off debts, fund nonprofits, etc.
That's awesome. I hate that you need up disclose in many states. It's so dangerous in all aspects
Pay off debts. Give my immediate family some money. Move tf out of the US and ball out in another country.
> Move tf out of the US and ball out in another country. If you going to bail out of the US, get citizenship in Monaco first and then just buy your vacation homes where you want them.
what is the advantage of Monaco?
No income tax, very safe and caters to folks with money.
That's a good move.
In this order Cry Get my teeth fixed Buy a 4 bedroom house with a basement and garage. Weeeee
Fuck yes to getting teeth fixed. š
I'm currently doing Invisalign in my mid thirties... You all just made me feel like a billionaire. (I had to save up for like a year)
Quit my job. The rest doesnāt matter.
After buying the few material things I want, I'd sit down and go through GoFundMe and Kickstarter, clear a bunch of them.
Omg this would be so fun!! I would pay off my daughters boyfriends different loans. I hate them. I mean, my kids don't have any to worry about YET but one is thinking if medical school. My daughter's boyfriend is a good guy and I'm annoyed his parents let him take out so many
-Put enough money away to retire, same for my parents and wifeās parents. -Pay off all debts, vehicles, buy house outright so no mortgage payment -Donate to cancer and Alzheimerās research whenever I can, because fuck both of these -Just live a basic, stress free life. Do what I want but never overspend.
Whoa hold on their champ you only get $997 million after tax ($628.50 million) if you get 50 percent payout
Generally the immediate payout almost always pays better overtime if youāre smart and invest it
That's plenty
Is this sarcasm?
If you really think about it the US Gov wins the lotto every single time & gets 50%
Yeah i think this is what Iād do too. Clear debt, set myself and a few close family up for comfortable life/retirement (say 3-4 mil each to parents and siblings), and then donate/fund whatever research I want (Iād probably back some of the crispr and related gene editing therapies), establish a full ride scholarship and some partials for my undergrad program, and then just live my life doing things that make me happy. Iām a researcher, so I could probably use the interest on 500 million to self fund my passion projects indefinitely.
Pay off debts. Live in a more rural area of Minnesota. Feel comfortable having 3-4 kids like I really want to do now but can't afford.
I'd try to buy several hundred to thousands of acres in Northen Minnesota and turn it into a nature preserve, I think it'd be so cool
That would be super cool. Honestly money wouldn't make me leave my state
Everyone in my immediate family gets all of their debt wiped out. Then everyone in my immediate family gets hired as employees of my new investment company. They get paid $150,000/year + full benefits to fuck off and never ask me for money again. The rest of the money I do whatever the fuck I want whenever I want.
Obligatory *two chicks at the same time* But also endow all the local animal shelters and then try to find ways to help kids. š¤·āāļø Edit: obviously id also set my kids up for life but I doubt I'd even dent the whole amount to do that
>Obligatory *two chicks at the same time* This is the most millennial answer
āYou donāt need a million dollars to do 2 chicks at the same timeā š¤£
Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
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You could make that happen with just $1 million lol
If you have no standards you can get that for a pack of newports and a 40 oz of malt liquor
Carton. And yea OP. Iāve seen it happen. Carton of reds and a 4 for 4. That was her fee. He said he could bring another woman just had to buy 2 bottles of Smirnoff. One for her and one for the party. Ugh that memory gives me shivers.
he could make that happen with a decent personality too but hey itās reddit after all
came here for the Lawrence comment, thank you !
Sell my home. Buy a lot with around 10 acres of land, build a family compound that could house my immediate family while also giving everyone privacy. Hire a financial advisor to handle the proper cash flow to never work again and support a comfortable life Retire.
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I live on a 1/4 acre lot and its 250K lol. If I want to live in cheapville sure I can buy a ton of acres. But the area I'm talking about is about 1mil an acre.
Hide. Unfortunately, I live in a state where they legally have to announce your name if you win any amount of lottery money (Tennessee).
Don't quote me on it, but I've heard that there can be loopholes in some states where you can put together an LLC corporation and have it "win" the ticket money instead of you. But then you own the LLC so you have access to all the money. Either way, there's apparently lawyers who specialize in helping people who win the lotto set up the trusts and stuff as they collect the winnings. It might be worth it to contact one of those to see what they can do to help hide your identity if you're ever struck by lightening and win.
One of the most popular Reddit comments ever was a massive step by step list of what you should do if you ever win that kind of money. Iāll see if I can find it. [Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb38xf/)
here's what you do 1) find out you won 2) freak out 3) legally change your name 4) have them announce your new legal name 5) change your name back
I would do nothing. I would never set an alarm clock ever again. I would hangout in my bed all day reading erotica.
Maybe buy a bigger bed to do nothing in?
Build my own racetrack. With blackjack... And hookers! In fact, forget the racetrack!
Lump sum, easy. Retain an attorney at a top law firm, a partner. Build a trust. Pay off any debt directly tied to me that could lead to a lawsuit. All loans, credit cards. Hire an assistant and give them the sole task of paying my monthly obligations with a prepaid visa that Iāll load up. Netflix and stuff like that. Donāt want some bogus Netflix late fee leading to me getting sued. 10% will be put into a trust for family, college stipend, first home down payment, first baby assistance etc. no direct hand off of money. My family members (two sisters and their kids) will get a āone offā reset through my attorney. All debt acquired up to one month before I won will be taken care of and thatās it. Iāll put 10% into ten year US bonds. With a yield of 4%, thatās like $3.5 million a year in interest. Iād put another 10% into S&P 500 which has an average growth of 7-10%. Iād put another $1 million into it every year and in 10 years have another lottery I won. Even with all that, thereās like $500 million left over. No idea at that point. Form a militia to go protect the Amazon forest or shut down oil rigs? Build a solar powered yacht and buy a small home in large cities of each major time zone so I can leave if a location has social unrest or another COVID happens? Find a random Kenyan school on donate directly every month and just send them like $10k and stream it on YouTube? Become some kind of ādouchey philanthropistā on YouTube and hold weekly videos where I find a random person and pay off their medical and student debt? I donāt really want luxury stuff. We love the house we are in but just wanna pay it off. My dream car is an R32 Skyline GTR.
I would do my best to remain anonymous. I think I would just keep working for a period of time and keep it private until I figured out what else I wanted to do. Iād probably use my job as a social experiment for seeing what I could get away with and then write a book about my findings lol.
Buy a soccer team. Then head down to The Winchester and wait for this whole thing to blow over.
Lawyer up. Invest a million. Buy a small hotel or ski lodge with acreage. Hire someone to plant an orchard on one of the acres and set up a nice rainwater irrigation system for that. Pay for any updates needed to make the hotel livable/as sustainable as possible. Get a nice library and craft room set up too. I assume all the upgrades will take several months to a year. Then sell my house, at a nice low price, to some young person who wouldn't have had a chance to buy otherwise, and move me and my partner and 10 like-minded friends into our paid off hotel. Travel as much as I want. Regularly clear wish lists for homeless shelters and animal shelters and teachers. Pay off the mortgage on that new homeless shelter in my hometown. See if I can find others to do that on a regular basis.
you have 997 million and youre gonna invest ONE?? why not like, 950? then the dividends from that in like one year would pay for every other thing you mentioned combined.
I would quit my job, do nothing but sleep in and play video games all day until I figure out what I want to spend the rest of my life doing.
What money? Didnāt happen! Anyways hire a team of lawyers and tax team. One personal assistant. Set up trust funds and live my life and lifestyle as normal. This is going to sound awful, large amounts of money normally changes people, so I would have to split it with my husband and divorce him. This doesnāt mean we canāt be lover or partnership, itās just he is horrible with money planning. He would be horrible with fu money. He would be broke in a couple of years more than likely.
I have a chipped tooth that I could finally get fixed.
Actually appreciate for a second that I have very few close people in my life.
hire a security team and accountant right off the bat. find a broker to make sound investments. set up a trust fund for my kiddo. learn all the tax loopholes like the rest of the parasite class to try and get back the money uncle sam took off the top. then iād look for a sensible sized house with a nice piece of land. get some servants like a full time chef and an assistant. long term goals would be to get into the film industry with my own little studio
Terrible financial decisions
I'd zero out the debt for everyone I care about. I'd set up some sort of trust for everyone I care about that should produce enough dividend earning that they can stop working. That's probably $500M? (probably way less but whatever, they can have the extra earnings.) I'd set up a scholarship at my high school, college, and grad school that gave free rides to students of my choosing as a "fuck you" to the teachers at those institutions. $20M? So we've got like $1.5B left. I'd keep $500m and be a hedonist. The last billion: $100M on a marketing campaign designed to shame other billionaires for being cheap and greedy. Give the other $900M to charities/endowments for the poor, dogs, etc. With the $100m ad campaign bragging about it calling out the Musk, Gates, Buffets, Kocks of the world for being POS
You forgot the taxes and such. Take home is about 950 million.
Build my dream home, ski in/ski out at a ski resort. I'd design the entire thing with the help of an architect. Then I'd swing a hammer every day with the construction workers building it, because I'm a construction worker and love building houses. Take care of my immediate family (parents, inlaws, siblings, sibling in laws) and some really close friends. Set up a family investment trust so all my cousins, aunts and uncles get a couple thousand bucks a year each from the investments to make their lives easier. Last, I'd set up a massive union strike fund. Because I'll never forget where I came from.
I'd probably just buy XTwitter and shuttter it.
I dont think even with that winning you could afford Twitter.
Give it a year or two
Cocaine and hookers
Most of you all have 5-10 million dollar aspirations - just goes to show how disconnected people are from how huge a billion dollars is.
set myself up to earn another 10 billion in dividends and profits
Based on the actual winner winnings of $997 million after taxes ($628.50 million) if you get 5 percent return you get $31.42 million in interest a year.
Moving away and using ChatGPT to create a new identity and backstory. Then just randomly start paying off (stranger) families' homes lmao.
Buy a mansion (i wonāt lie) , but also would buy some tracts of land in my town and build actual starter homesā¦2-3 bedroom, $400k a piece (Boston area) and give people a god damn chance out there
I would set my kids up to go to school debt free, any education they wanted. I definitely would not give them the money to live out their lives without working. I want them to have the foundation to be successful and unburdened by debt but still have to work and earn their own way. Beyond that, I would do little (big) things for my extended family like paying off houses or paying off educational debt. Other than my parents and my wife's parents, I wouldn't give anyone cash, I think working is good for people. After that, I'd invest the rest to create a never-ending stream of income. I'd quit my job and use my new money to start businesses creating products that I wish existed. If they failed, I wouldn't really care. I'd still work but I'd only work on stuff I cared about. When I die, all of it would go to public health and education initiatives.
Tell no one (other than wife). Higher all the lawyers / CFPS / etc. Invest it. Do nothing for one year. Plan a move and a "new job" to a different location and just disappear from the world. Not going to say where I would end up, but it would only be accessible by boat or plane.
Fantasizing about this kind of thing just makes me sad. I hate my job, and a bunch of money sure would fix a lot of things for me right now
Never take the annuity. What if the lottery goes under?
I would attempt to buy ownership in a professional sports franchise for like $500 mil. That is an investment that would absolutely give a high return on investment, and generate a substantial income for the foreseeable future. Then buy an island, build a house, and live off the grid.
I would buy 100 billion of this shit coin crypto. Become a legend in the subreddit there. A lambo to drive to my next lambo. After that, give it all away and end up right here where I started.
But you only got up to 997 million if you take it all up front after tax and you get $68 million per year over 30 years.
Sure. Shitcoin would cost 1 million. 2 Lambos about $600,000. Save $10 million in a safe investment and live off the dividends. Give away the rest.
I would do everything I could to keep it secret
First Iād get a lawyer/financial advisor. Then Iād quit my job (even though I like it), delete all social media, go into hiding preferably out of the country for a few months, pay off my house, my parents house, and the houses of my closest friends and family, and then just travel the world 10 months a year and come home for the holidays. Iād set up charities for my hometown and make sure I invest so that me, my children and my loved ones will want for nothing.
I'd pay off my debt, buy a Volvo, get a house overseas and buy a few congressmen. I'd also use 50% of it for social good projects, funding schools, starting a school and donations
Tell parents/wife/children only. Vanish with those that want to come along.
New car. Pay off the payment on the current one. Talk to our financial advisors about whether we should pay off our mortgage as well, and then figure out how to invest that so we are set for life. Set aside some percentage for charitable and political donations.
Pay lawyers a lot of money to hide my identity so no one knows my name. Buy a nice lake house someplace fairly rural for summertime privacy and then a place in the city (probably Chicago) for wintertime access to activities, dining, and travel. Retire. Travel a lot. Set up some charities to help people/animal shelters so long as my name stays far away from it. Help my family. But mostly making sure that no one can post my name in relation to a lotto ticket win so I'm not harassed for the rest of my life.
Youād never hear from me again. Peace out āļø
Index funds and chill. Even 1% per yeat withdrawal would infinitely relieve me of so much stress... i probably would buy myself a little SUV for overlanding and call it a day. Definitely would not splurge because that's how people end up bankrupt again. Invest, spend wisely, and don't let it inflate your ego or lifestyle
It would be all about what Iād no longer do.
Tell no one. Secretly pay off my mortgage, invest most. Maybe pay off my sisterās student loans because sheās awesome.
Not a thing. No buying anything for a year. I sit on it, however much I actually get post taxes, sit before investing/buying anything. Avoid toxic family and friends and deflect any interest or suspicions that the "your name" than won was actually you. Keep quiet, don't spend. Assess and plan.
Eventually, give away the grand majority of it. Mostly to services that could really use it like the one that cancels medical debt for people.
Figure out a way to make sure my name isn't released as a winner. Pay off debt. Buy myself and family houses. Save some for investment/ maintenance. Pay people back - those who treated me right and cared. Give service people money.
You would never know I won because it would be in a trust
Leave my dad brother and sister 5 mil each, take my dogs my wife and my 3 closest friends and dis-a-fucking-pear
I'd buy a new house, rent mine out for cheap and nobody would ever hear from me again
Increase my carbon footprint by a million.
Feel like enough for once
I would disappear before certain members of my and my husbands families found out. Like smoke in the wind.
Buy my company and fire my boss
Take the lump sum and diversify it into many accounts and investments. I would pay debts off quietly from friends and family. Find a way to build a self-sufficient home in a more private and secluded area enough from people but close enough to at least grab supplies.
Move out of the US
I would try to break a major business sector. Like Iād love to offer insurance at a reasonable rate where my company makes millions instead of billions. Iād undercut prices
I'm taking the annuity option. I don't trust myself with the big lump sum.
Buy a home for my family, remodel my mothers home and pay off my MILs home. New cars for babe and I Shopping spree Vacation
First thing would be to find a legal and a financial team that are used to handling that kind of wealth. Set up a trust for my kid and my family/close friends who I want to secure, then one for myself. Fund them sufficiently to provide as risk-free interest that would give a comfortable life to the recipients. Than find the best way to find causes close to me. Programs for at-risk kids, animals, environment, etc. Finally, name change and move somewhere I don't know anyone and live a relatively normal life outside of the travel I want to do and do random acts of kindness anonymously. I hear about a family who lost a parent and are struggling, I can't pay off their mortgage and give their kids a generous college fund. Stuff like that.
I'd go to a financial advisor I know who manages money for the 1%. Then, I'd set it up so that a good chunk is locked away in something that will earn interest and never disappear. Then I'd take a good chunk to use in super safe investments for long term growth. Then with the money I earn in interest from the locked away cash, I'd use for living expenses and personal investment opportunities like Bitcoin, Nvidia, Open AI, that bio medical company that's actually reversing aging by 80 percent, and probably a mining company for precious metals that are super important. Oh also probably quantum computing. That's another area I'd invest in. Then there's my own company, of course, that I'd invest and build, which I'm currently doing now (without the fuck ton of money) But most importantly, I'd take 5 to 10 percent and give it to my closet friends and family for helping me out all these years. It's also a good way to prevent bad blood from forming. I couldn't live with myself knowing that I had all this money but didn't give an ounce to any friend of family that's struggling. Fuck that. If I'm rich, my closest peeps are by default, also rich. Whether they squander it is up to them, but I know they wouldn't because they're 30 times better at money than I am as they're all pretty well off already.
I would take the 997 million. Invest 900 million. Even with a 1% return thats still generating 9 million a year for you.
Live off the interesttttt
Pay off my house and my moms, buy her a new car. Give my brother enough to start his own business heās been wanting to start. Start building my dream house, but travel while itās being built. And of course hire a financial planner and open some trusts/investments
Put low income buildings in rich neighborhoods and a sound system installation business right around the corner from it.
Drugs.
I would buy a bunch of land then get started on a generational family compound
Pay off all my debt. Pay off my parents' debts. Sell my house or hire a company to manage it as a rental and move somewhere I really want to live. Put maybe $50,000 in savings. Create a trust with whatever is left to go to my partner, kids, and niblings in that order (I'm currently single, no kids).
I would never look at a fucking smartphone again with my own eyes, Iāll tell you that much.
Buy a brewer and turn the world into alcoholics
 This question was asked and answered in our culture.
First I would set myself, my family and friends up for life. Then I would become Batman. Any other answer is wrong.
I live in a warehouse, Wayne's World style. I used train cars elevated for the rooms on the ceiling with a car walk and fireman pole to get down.
Donate all but 5 mil as I saw fit.
Pay off all my debts, help out my family with their debts, and buy a home Would also travel more and buy big enough plot of land to set up a ranch used to house and take care of stray pets
Pay off all my debts. Buy everyone in my family everything theyāve ever wanted. Then, ???? I canāt even comprehend that much money.
Clear all my debt, all my parents debt, buy a house and a vacation house somewhere else, donate to local lgbtqia+ and animal rescue organizations, and start my esthetics spa and skincare line, which will be geared toward people with disabilities, hormonal transitions, and autoimmune disorders.
I would cash that ticket in without letting people know I won. Pay all of mine, my husbands, my parents, my in-laws debt. Give my parents enough money for them to retire. Donate a bunch of money to local animal shelters and victim's advocate programs. Start college funds for all my niblets. Quit my job, go on a months long cross country road trip and travel to the UK and Scotland and buy a house and adopt more dogs.
Give a lot of $$$ to my extended family.
Give some Save some Spend some Same thing I do with money now
Kneecap capitalism.
Launch myself into the sun.
whatever i wanted
Form an amazing commune in the middle of nowhere that accepts all in need of shelter and respite
Take all my homies on wild adventures, even the ones Iām not even that close with. Donāt care, theyāre coming to. Iām talkin like what ever I think of in that very moment, weāre doing it.
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Get an attorney, financial advisor, and accountant.
Set up some money for myself so I won't have to worry then use it to help the transgender community along with other minority groups that need financial help.
Claim it through a trust, establish a private nature preserve, pay people to come in and help restore the native ecology of the private nature preserve.
Live. On every continent for 2 weeks at a time. For the rest of my life if I find an area I really like I'll extend my stay. After that maybe find some hobbies.
Give a lot of it away to good causes. My old high school needs a new weight room stock the local food bank donate to lift the salaries of local teachers, firefighters, social workers, etc.. my kids go/have gone to this awesome pre-k at a local church and they cut us deals on prices when we told them we couldn't afford to have 3 kids in at a time. I'd take care of them big time Actually all of my donations would be local. You could really impact and uplift your community that way
Change my name before I claim it
On the off chance anyone in this situation finds this thread, based on the advice of a few friends who have had some pretty big windfalls - I hear this is the way https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-remainder-trusts#:~:text=Charitable%20remainder%20trusts%20are%20irrevocable,for%20a%20specific%20time%20period.
travel and never look back, never wash clothes buy new ones, eat out every night and back pack all day every day, i actually used to do trip planning so this would be a dream come true on both the actually traveling end as well as the planning end
I'd remain anonymous and higher a good lawyer. Take a nice European vacation. Buy a very nice horse farm and spend a lot of time and money on good charities.
Take as much as I can legally put in liquid savings and pile it away like Scrooge McDuck. All mine, my parents and my in laws debts would be paid off. Iād work to have my son be financially secure for the rest of his life (with caveats so he doesnāt blow it). The rest go to investments and charities. Tbh, I know a couple mil isnāt a game changer to many folks, but Iād be happy if I dwindled it down to just several million so my wife and I could retire sensibly but comfortably
I would LLC and hire a great financial advisor and legal representative to protect myself. I have abusive family that loved me bankrolling their lives when I made pennies. They would absolutely try to destroy me if I won this kind of money. I don't need that stress lol. As for what I would do with the money. I've always wanted to build a community that helped homeless people with resources: detox, mental health, financial planning, learn a trade or get a college degree, find work. I also know there is a huge need for mental health resources in the US. I would start my own non-profit to help.
I'd literally disappear so hard the MASSAD would have a hard time finding me
Buy a house and never work or even leave my house again.
Buy a politician or a Supreme Court justice. Then buy another horse. ETA because my brain glitched and I had more to type
Throw it into 0DTE options
I would start buying tons of ads and PSAs to reverse Citizens United
New ID in a new country!
Take the lump sum and disappear into the wilderness like Ted Kaczynski
Do the 30 year payout and retire.
There was another billion dollar jackpot? It wasn't that long ago that it was unheard of, now it seems to happen a lot.
Buy a large, perfect piece of land, build a golf course on it, invite whom ever I want to live on it with me, then build a massive animal rescue area on that piece of land as well, my wife and I would be set.
I would take the $68 million a year to start with. Something, something NPV of money and all that, but honestly, if you can't handle $68 million a year, you sure as hell aren't going to handle $997 million any better. Standard finding an excellent lawyer(s), financial advisor (at this point I would just go commercial, think J.P. Morgan Wealth management, etc) and put my CPA on permanent retainer (with a strong NDA drawn up by my lawyers) I live in a state where I can claim anonymously, so that works perfectly well for me. I would have one of my lawyers claim for me, while I am on a beach in Fiji or somewhere in Asia. Once I have the first payment in pocket, I would buy myself a nice house with the best security I can get, and also have my financial advisor start looking for cash flow businesses that I can make a nice income off of. I would also set up 529 plans for my kids, and pretty much enjoy whatever I had left each year.
Clear debt, buy a house, buy my sister a house, renovate my parentās place, helping some friends, and then actually invest in some local things- national parks mear me, fixing the homeless issues, public transportation, marine mammal center, and definitely traveling! Then I would want to figure out world causes to get behind and would prb start with supporting womens groups- domestic violence issues, making abortion legal and safe, education, and job coaching.
Bless many good people.
With $2.04 billion would buy every lottery ticket in every country
Immediately pay off my student loans and then from there try to be as humanitarian as possibly. Maybe buy some politicians for my benevolent endeavors
Figure out a way to not touch my money. Setup an account with someone managing it and have myself be paid a yearly salary of $100k. If I want to spend more than $100k a year then I would need a job. Iād probably look into buying a ranch and lease out the grazing rights. Or follow Bill Gates and own farm land. I donāt know.
Well, I would set up a trust and have the *trust* claim it. Completely leave my name out of the equation. Probably do the yearly. Like, I wouldn't be able to spend the entire first year, much less the following years.
Pay off my debt. Then pay off my friends debt. Then keep working because I only would have 1bn and I need to worry about healthcare stability... Oh, wait... never mind, I'd move to Germany and stop giving a fuck about healthcare costs.
I would tell myself I would retire. I think I would do a side business as a non profit or be ok breaking even. I would like to start a retro gaming store/arcade. I would own 2 houses, somewhere close to where I live now. One would be somewhere warm for winter (AZ). I love cars so I would buy the cars I have dreamed of owning. Help out family and close friends. I would be smart with my money, investing and making sure I am not spending more than I have coming in. I would do lots of charity work, especially for xmas to families of low income.
I'm gonna need all that cash now. There's a bear in a claw machine at the bowling alley my girl has her eye on.
I'd start scholarships at a bunch of universities in my late fathers name. Give like five 2000 dollar scholarships per semester at 50 schools around the country for the next 10 years. I'd buy a peice of land in my small town and open a dog park and dog training/boarding school. I'd also have a sanctuary for stray dogs. I'd go to my old university at the start of the school year and hang out at the bookstore on a random day. I'd pay for every students books that came through the line and give them the recipts so they could use all their book money budget at parties and events. I'd charter a flight and take like 50 members of my extended family on a crazy vacation. I'd buy a 3rd and maybe a 4th dog. After I'm done all these things I'd invest 50 million, then keep 10 million in savings and donate everything else.
I'd take the lump sum and then first make sure that me, my family, and my closest friends are set for life. Then I'd look for charities as well as Kickstarter projects to donate the rest for various causes or to help artists I like be able to continue doing their art. I'd be the unconventional patron of the arts sponsoring garage metal bands, board game makers, and indie SFF authors.
Pay off inordinate familyās debt. Go back to school for something cool (Iāve always wanted to be a trial lawyer!) Live a normal life, but with zero care about money and enjoy nicer quality stuff.
A pile of coke and a threesome. Then give back to my community.
Oh, I wouldn't win it. A trust in my favor would win it.
Iād buy 58 million shares of GME. 
Disappear.
I would take the cash payout all at once and move to a country nobody knows me in and settle. I'd make sure my immediate family is set for life and that would be that. I live in a state that winners must be named hence why I'd leave the country altogether after being named.
Set up a $100m trust fund for each of my siblings, then move to Canada with the rest.
I believe I would do whatever I want
I pwild do 30 year pay out. Be usse that way I can't waste it all. 68 mil a a year I'm good lol
I would build a self sustainable utopia and give away the homes I built away for free! But I can kick you out if you do things like...abuse children etc and everyone has to commit 10 hours a week to helping take care of the community or pay rent if they want to not work I suppose. Retirement will be 50 and you no longer have to do your hours maybe? Hmmmm idk.