Can you buy special powers and become superman, or is this a serious thread?
Regarding sheen, I think a life of being drugged out, banging stupid hot chicks, driving a flashy car and living in a big mansion would be effing horrible. I'm serious. It would be good for the first 3months perhaps, then you'd basically be destroyed - a purposeless, aimless, wreck of a man with nothing to live for.
Really this thread is quite unpleasant simply because of the unintended questions it raises - namely, questions as to the limits of how good your life can be. We are all just following the basic pattern that a human (and indeed any animal) follows - you are born, you struggle to increase your position in the world, you probably have kids, you struggle to increase their position in the world, you die. We are all just copies of the same process.
But aside from that, probably the following things:
Regarding my job - no change, I actually feel passion for the profession I am in.
Probably buy two houses - one walking distance from work, one good house I like for the weekend.
Probably buy two stupidly powerful sports cars, for redundancy purposes (damn cars are always breaking down).
Probably buy a Cray supercomputer, modified to run windows.
Probably buy a stupidly enormous yacht, just to laugh at the other guys who think yacht ownership is the pinnacle of awesome. I'm talking a big yacht here. As in it can barely fit between bridge supports when it sails down the Brisbane river, and has a fleet of tugs following it just for when it needs to be turned around. It might have cannons too, I'm not sure about the laws on that sort of thing
Probably fund a new series of institutes and organizations of the pro-free-market variety, with the goal to return the west and japan to rational economic and social policies.
Hire personal trainer, invest venture capital in the types of start-ups I like, etc etc. No 'throw money at them' philanthropy (which I consider immoral), but probably hire mercenaries to topple evil governments which cause the misery, institute common law, constitutional limits on government power etc.
That would probably keep me busy to begin with
Regarding sheen, I think a life of being drugged out, banging stupid hot chicks, driving a flashy car and living in a big mansion would be effing horrible. I'm serious. It would be good for the first 3months perhaps, then you'd basically be destroyed - a purposeless, aimless, wreck of a man with nothing to live for.
Really this thread is quite unpleasant simply because of the unintended questions it raises - namely, questions as to the limits of how good your life can be. We are all just following the basic pattern that a human (and indeed any animal) follows - you are born, you struggle to increase your position in the world, you probably have kids, you struggle to increase their position in the world, you die. We are all just copies of the same process.
But aside from that, probably the following things:
Regarding my job - no change, I actually feel passion for the profession I am in.
Probably buy two houses - one walking distance from work, one good house I like for the weekend.
Probably buy two stupidly powerful sports cars, for redundancy purposes (damn cars are always breaking down).
Probably buy a Cray supercomputer, modified to run windows.
Probably buy a stupidly enormous yacht, just to laugh at the other guys who think yacht ownership is the pinnacle of awesome. I'm talking a big yacht here. As in it can barely fit between bridge supports when it sails down the Brisbane river, and has a fleet of tugs following it just for when it needs to be turned around. It might have cannons too, I'm not sure about the laws on that sort of thing
Probably fund a new series of institutes and organizations of the pro-free-market variety, with the goal to return the west and japan to rational economic and social policies.
Hire personal trainer, invest venture capital in the types of start-ups I like, etc etc. No 'throw money at them' philanthropy (which I consider immoral), but probably hire mercenaries to topple evil governments which cause the misery, institute common law, constitutional limits on government power etc.
That would probably keep me busy to begin with