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Title: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: SoldierofFortune on March 08, 2020, 05:41:12 AM
Thoughts?

P.S.: Of course, you have enough time and health.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Sal1981 on March 08, 2020, 09:41:39 AM
In what capacity exactly? Political? Economic? Philosophical? Technological?
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Baruch on March 08, 2020, 10:40:23 AM
Quote from: SoldierofFortune on March 08, 2020, 05:41:12 AM
Thoughts?

P.S.: Of course, you have enough time and health.

I assume this is personal, not the usual socialist masturbation ...

I have enough to be comfortable, but not extravagant.  Like I am now.  I can see my future, as dying a few years from now, but at least I will be near my daughter, since she will probably survive me.

Socialist masturbation ... Magrathea.  Personal planets.  But I will build Earth 2 without Scandanavia, since I don't want Greta in it ;-)
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Gawdzilla Sama on March 08, 2020, 11:40:50 AM
Money is just how we keep score. There will always be an equivalent and it will always affect our status.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Shiranu on March 08, 2020, 02:05:53 PM
A small vineyard, a nice little Spanish villa house with the two loves of my life and an infinite supply of top-tier marijuana, my own mechanic shop for high-end cars and travelling wherever we want and whenever we want. My own fashion line would be dope too.

Probably take a late 60s Chevelle SS, a 77' Trans Am and an Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale as well. That list is missing a few cars that I'm just blanking on right now though.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: LoriPinkAngel on March 08, 2020, 04:44:33 PM
I would completely restore my house which is a 1910 Victorian.  I would also have a nice house in Hollywood, Florida where I would go any time I want and hang out with my long distance BF.  I would fund my son's education as high as he would like to take it.  I would still be a nurse but work per-diem, in my same position where I work now.  I would give generously to charities for Veterans, homeless people and animals.  I would travel a lot both in the US and overseas.  I would be in some sort of choral group.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Baruch on March 08, 2020, 05:39:49 PM
Quote from: Shiranu on March 08, 2020, 02:05:53 PM
A small vineyard, a nice little Spanish villa house with the two loves of my life and an infinite supply of top-tier marijuana, my own mechanic shop for high-end cars and travelling wherever we want and whenever we want. My own fashion line would be dope too.

Probably take a late 60s Chevelle SS, a 77' Trans Am and an Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale as well. That list is missing a few cars that I'm just blanking on right now though.

I hope you get that, some day.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Baruch on March 08, 2020, 05:41:08 PM
Quote from: LoriPinkAngel on March 08, 2020, 04:44:33 PM
I would completely restore my house which is a 1910 Victorian.  I would also have a nice house in Hollywood, Florida where I would go any time I want and hang out with my long distance BF.  I would fund my son's education as high as he would like to take it.  I would still be a nurse but work per-diem, in my same position where I work now.  I would give generously to charities for Veterans, homeless people and animals.  I would travel a lot both in the US and overseas.  I would be in some sort of choral group.

I hope you get that too.  I once lived in a partially restored 1910 Victorian.  That is were we lived when my daughter was born.  Not so nice neighborhood.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Hydra009 on March 08, 2020, 10:12:31 PM
Realistically?  A beachhouse and a dog.  I'd be happy with that.

But if I had (practically) unlimited resources to work with?  I'd bankroll vaccine research and intentionally wipe out a ton of disease.  I would utterly exterminate malaria for sure.  In particular, I'd see anopheles gambiae lit up with crosses.

I would buy and destroy as much medical and student debt as I possibly could.

I would fund public works projects to overhaul US infrastructure - roads, bridges, energy, telecom/internet, etc.  I would make South Korea's average connection speed look like North Korea's average connection speed.

I would buy and set aside land for nature preserves and animal sanctuaries, particularly marshland.

I would champion Ad Luna, an expedition to establish a permanent colony on the moon.

And finally, I would fund Project Hydra: cutting-edge regenerative medical research (treatments to repair and restore damaged tissues/organs) with the ultimate goal of developing technologies to restore human patients that have suffered severe and otherwise permanent harm - severe burns, lacerations, amputation, paralysis, organ failure, etc.  I want disfiguring and/or debilitating injuries to go the way of the iron lung.

Oooh, and a pony.  I've always wanted a pony.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: GSOgymrat on March 08, 2020, 10:56:36 PM
I'm not the person to give large sums of money because I wouldn't appreciate it or know how to use it responsibly. My vision of the future is to maintain my current lifestyle until I die. I'm kind of like a hobbit.
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Baruch on March 09, 2020, 08:54:57 AM
Quote from: GSOgymrat on March 08, 2020, 10:56:36 PM
I'm not the person to give large sums of money because I wouldn't appreciate it or know how to use it responsibly. My vision of the future is to maintain my current lifestyle until I die. I'm kind of like a hobbit.

Put your investment money in hair removal, hobbits have hairy feet ;-)
Title: Re: What would your visionary future be if money is no case?
Post by: Baruch on March 10, 2020, 10:15:55 PM
Beware of getting what you want ... it might be hard when you lose it ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCaMe4oKwtE