Ask HN: You privately received $24M. What would you do?

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Generic question yes, but I believe it's a good thought experiment to sort out some macro objectives/priorities and at the same time ask ourselves: "Why am I not doing this yet?"

It would be very interesting to know your thoughts on the subject.

PS: Why $24.000.000? Say you hypothetically have 100 years ahead of you, then this would be equivalent to receiving $20.000 per month.

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It depends on what I would be expected to do with it. If used wisely, it could last at least 2-3 years if nothing more was earned. Personally, if I was just given it and told I could do as I please, I'd probably invest it and put it into a bunch of stocks to let it grow, and continue working to make money.

Have you mis-read this? It's 24 million ...

24.000.000 is not 24 million.

24,000,000 is 24 million.

> 24.000.000 is not 24 million

There are many conventions for thousands separation [1]. 1.000; 1,000; 1 000; and 1'000 can all mean one thousand.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark

Good point. I can't edit the main post anymore, so it might cause some confusion still. To make it clear, the purpose was to express 24 million dollars

My bad...sorry about that, I did mis-read the post. I've seen period use, but normal operations in $US transactions is not a period, but commas. $24,000,000. I originally mis-read it and thought $24,000.000 so I was thinking twenty-four thousand.

One could start the companies doing the things you see the world needs, are cool and you could contribute to.

a medice college, with brain specialization, then invest on human-computer interface(but wisely and slowly), it requires experience that no one has(one might call but it is not experience when you cannot write a undergraduate textbook).

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