What Would You Do With a Hundred Million Dollars?

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Oren doesn’t want to be rich. But I definitely do.

After a lifetime of abject poverty — poverty that I hoped would end after I got away from my family and went to college and could get out into the real world — I can’t help but see money as the answer to all of life’s problems.

Unfortunately, my adulthood has been just as full of poverty and struggle as my childhood. It looks like I missed my shot at getting out of generational poverty. And my generations ends with me. But that’s another can of worms for another day.

Suffice it to say, I find myself wishing a pallet of gold ingots would fall out of the sky and land right in front of me — or a pallet of hundred dollar bills. Or diamonds. Or whatever’s easiest.

And thankfully, I have a plan, should that ever happen.

Since this kind of hypothetical really depends on how much obscene wealth you have — a million dollars only takes you so far in this economy, after all, I’ve got to set some kind of arbitrary amount. Let’s say $100 million. A good-sized fortune, but not obscene Bezos-levels. A respectable amount of money.

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I’d lock up about $50 million in investments. The name of the game is making sure that I’ll have enough money to live…