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I would start many of the passion projects Ive had.
Many of them would be brand new organizations with fully funded salaries for 10 years.
And I would buy a house for all my close family (about 10 people total so not much of the Billion)
I could easily spend 10 Billion because the vast majority would be trusts for for those salaries/budgets
Depending on costs I would start a hundred such organizations and the bulk of the rest would go to acquiring property/budgets for those organizations need.
I would charge very minimal rental space for many interesting businesses that wouldn't be able to survive due to that. Places like a drive in movie theater, boardgame restaurant, pool/billiards place, music venues(no arenas but I would try to buy places like the one they used for The Talon exterior shots in the tv show Smallville. I would specifically buy that specific theatre if able and renovate it which could easily cost 100s of millions for a variety of venues ide like to operate
I have many ideas. Many of them I think would be valuable additions to the places they are and not just blood sucking wealth generators.
I think the world leadership struggles to plan for more than 5 years at a time and even then not much. Change takes time, we need to start thinking long term 25 50 100 100+ year thinking if we want to benefit those that come after us, which .