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[-] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago
[-] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Sounds cliche but I would have a massive animal sanctuary. Our domesticated animals shouldn't be left alone. They need us as much as we need them.

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Destroy capitalism.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Fund my totally nonfictional company by commissioning professional online artists like Panda Paco or Reva the Scarf to make official portraits of all of us totally real people, starting with me, the head beaver.

That's probably the first thing I'd wanna do.

[-] Typewar@infosec.pub 13 points 1 day ago

Continue doing what I love without having to worry about money being an issue

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Duplicate money.

Outbid the car/weapons lobby and errect an eco-social government >:) Watch out, we'll support your purchase of an electric car and reinstate the Vegane Wurst!!!!

You'd better start with some pretty hefty security for yourself cause your have assassination attempts pretty quickly.

Welp... care for a job as security advisor?

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

You could create hyper inflation destroying modern currencies causing them to have to pay your assassins in gold, which would be a major pain in the ass if you didn't already physically own gold.

I feel like they'd kill me long before that. Unless they figure out that I have an infinite money glitch, then I'd just get kidnapped and tortured till I spill how I do it.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I think it matters how paranoid you become and how much effort you put into risk aversion. If you buy a fortress and almost never leave, you are probably pretty safe. If you just go about living the same way you were, you will probably be offd on the street.

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

I mean, if a person with a normal budget purchases a fortress the IRS (Or their country's equivalent) is gonna notice. Pretty much any government in existence isn't gonna want someone with the power to single handedly ruin any economy to exist.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Not if they are smart and hire an accountant.

The prompt just says "money" so you could use any and all currencies. You almost certainly would touch your own countries currency last, so you have something easy to trade with.

Also how good is the IRS at taxing the rich already?

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

Depends on if it's generational wealth, or a normal person getting rich. But yeah, the best accounting firm money can buy would probably take care of that problem pretty quickly.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah it would be tricky, you would have to play your cards right and play them close to your chest... But you have sooo much power, there are a multitude ways you could succeed.

Even if you knew nothing about economics, finance or accounting you could just take a vacation to some small island country where they have there own small currency and news travels slowly. Build up some wealth before you go there, rent the most extravagant things you can and get close to the upper echelon and then blackmail them into helping you... Or use a carrot and cut them in on your plans.

People are bribed so cheaply that I think it would be easier than you think to get a fortress, (metaphorical or otherwise) between you and would be assasins before they even realize who you are.

Do you know that no one actually knows who the richest man is? We only have guesses who would be in the top 10.

[-] aeternum 9 points 1 day ago

I'd house and feed the homeless, rescue a SHIT LOAD of farm animals, and generally be a good person. But that's why I'll never be uber rich.

Username checks out and I'd like to express my support for this :)

Use the hell out of it.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

With a duplication glitch, wouldn't both technically be the same chick?

Twins is nice, duplicates is a trip

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 59 points 1 day ago

Not ask the internet what I would do – revealing that I’ve found an infinite money glitch.

[-] dumbass@aussie.zone 54 points 1 day ago

Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Keep it to myself and fund projects I like (under the assumption that I could get a million € per h for example)

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tell no one, obscure monetary transactions to the best of my ability, and fund global communism

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Something terrible.

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Probably cause mass inflation and a return to bartering.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago

One guy already found this hack and created a shitty “AI” company

[-] amino 33 points 1 day ago

I'd spawn a million tons of cash above every single capitalist's house and let them be suffocated to death by the thing they love most

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

I'd also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My "car" would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

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[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Tell no one, live in my tiny house, buy high quality jeans, travel a lot by myself, get a library's worth of books, and make art/video games all day.

[-] TheV2@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

I'd sell an e-book about this glitch on Amazon and generate passive income!

[-] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago

Well maybe it's too boring and obvious, but... Seize the means of production, distribute equal shares of its ownership to everyone, design a democratic process to decide what should come next.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

Yes, it has happened to me.

I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.

I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.

I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more. Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)

Plant crops, sell crops and hold some back to plant next year’s crop.

Real-life infinite money/duplication glitch.

[-] kubica@fedia.io 25 points 1 day ago

That sounds suspiciously like farm work.

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[-] SpicyLengthiness@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If we had lots of time, then it's easy. Just buy total market index funds and sit and wait. This is why vampires are usually rich. If you've lived that long, and you're not rich, you're doing something wrong.

$2 at 7% a year for 50 years = $58.91

$2 at 7% a year, for 500 years = $1,505,863.24

The power of compound interest!

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

fund research in high density cities with good public trans. don't pay high but comes with housing, education, food, and other various perks. The housing and research institutes will have no parking.

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

My wallet never would be empty, but just enough to buy a drink or a meal when need it

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