25/11/2023
We answered this while placing a parameter on this hypothetical scenario.
- You don't have unlimited money
- You can't use this money to invest, just your needs and wants
- You can't "save" your money
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Matic na yung necessities like food, hygiene, accommodation, clothing, and healthcare. Pero if it’s just the luxury, will probably buy machines for machine shop and satisfy my curiosity and cravings on tinkering and building random things, also books for other things that I’m curious about. With this, I can do the scientists and inventor stuffs that I always dream of and build things for society while I enjoy myself.
–A
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I think I'm gonna lose my mind if I don't do any work.
According to Blaise Pascal, given enough time to think, humans will eventually contemplate their own insignificance which eventually leads to misery. Or as he puts it in his Pensees "I have discovered that all unhappiness of men arises from one single fact: that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. I have found that there is one very real reason, namely, the natural poverty of our feeble and mortal condition so miserable that nothing can comfort us when we think of it closely."
Fortunately humans are easily distracted. One can easily keep these thoughts at bay given enough distractions. They may not be enough to make you happy, but they will at least make you functional. Though eventually, when these distractions can no longer sustain you, Pascal suggests that the only recourse is to turn to Go (he's an uber religious dude). While many find comfort in that, it isn't an option for some of us.
Going back to the question, I will try my best to find diversions. Read a book. Write my own book. Devour seinen manga. Pick up a new talent. Maybe even try to learn the violin. Start the business we've been meaning to start now that we have a safety net if ever we fail. Finally travel to the places my SO and I have dreamed of going. Do intimate stuff. Do more intimate stuff. Do everything just to not be alone with my own thoughts and contemplate insignificance.
Read Pascal's Pensees 169 to distract yourself: https://tayiabr.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/pensees-169-blaise-pascal/
–R
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I'll probably travel the world. Stay in one place for a month or two, truly discovering what that town has to offer. I'll talk to locals, maybe even learn their language along the way. I'll drink and eat with the locals, learn their experiences through stories and alcohol. I'll probably document the journey too in multiple ways. Vlog, book, etc.
Since this money can't be used for other people, I'll probably think of a way to raise awareness to issues I encounter along the way, or raise funds for the people that I'd meet. I'm talkative, I think inevitably I'll generate certain level of influence and following, considering that I don't need to satisfy brands or companies for revenue.
I imagined I'll learn a lot of things along the way, even become good at some of them. I'll probably learn pottery, weaving, surfing, lots of stuff.
I'll certainly try to taste all kinds of food and alcohol around the world.
–IV