Skipping past the obvious of paying off debts and buying a decent house, I’d do this:
Found a company to sell tech products (Pinephone, but cooler). Only the best benefits, work environment, basically everything I hate about any job I’ve worked, fixed. I’d hire good people, and make damn sure they’re treated well. After everything is going well and with some kind of charter so they can’t decide to be evil, I’d turn the company over to my employees. I’d step down and become a janitor or something and work ~20 hours a week until I retire.
Whatever money’s left over, if there is any, is given away.
I want to work. I like working. I just want to work somewhere good, ya know?
I’d just buy my employer but they made ~450m Euro after taxes so they might want more than a billion. Also fuck audits.
Go find that old post from AskReddit and follow it to a tee.
Outside of that, I’d probably buy a house closer to downtown, buy a new truck, and start to figure out how I can increase the quality of education in rural South Carolina.
Make sure my mom’s in home health care is paid for for the rest of her life, so that she can continue to live in her house as she wishes while she is still with us, retire from my paid career early, do volunteer work instead, and travel often.
Your odds of finding the winning ticket on the sidewalk about about the same as if you bought a ticket. I'm not sure if that changes the surprise level.
I guess you’re kind of right, in that they’re both essentially 0. But the odds of winning the lottery are still …millions? of times higher to win by buying one than finding a winning ticket on the street.
My life is bad enough, without the lottery ruining it further with constant harassment, death threats, attempted muggings, entitled family demanding handouts, new “relatives” magically materializing from the ether, etc etc.
If I want to fuck my life up that badly, I’ll start doing heroine and meth. I’d probably have better 10 year survival prospects, as well.
Just because bad things befell other lottery winners doesn’t mean it’ll happen to you, though. You have the power to act on the wisdom of the past and do better than your predecessors, and one needs to have the courage to do so to get anywhere in life.
I’d get a house for me and my family. Make sure my parents have a house that meets their needs as well. I’d hire a personal trainer to get in shape and take a few months off work while I figure out what to do next.
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