[ExI] What would you do if you won the billion dollar plus MegaMillions Lottery, and are lotteries a bad thing?

[John Grigg]

William Flynn Wallace wrote:
"Right - a few years ago when I was single I bought all the stuff I ever
wanted - camera, stereo, PC, cooking gear, yard machines, plasma TV, and of
course it was good that I never wanted a mansion, a yacht, etc."

Hold on!  Being single sounded great for you!  And then a woman got
involved! Lol!  ;  )  Actually, I should not give you a hard time, because
I met the love of my life, despite being middle-aged and thinking myself
past that lovey dovey stuff.  And now I look forward to starting a new life
in the Philippines, and living with her, and her four girls, ages, 6, 9, 12
and 14, who are wonderful, and need a dad.  I have known them for about two
years.  Parenthood will be a whole new experience for me...   She wants the
girls raised in the Filipino culture, and is very close to her friends and
family.  And so I will live there for roughly a decade, as the girls grow
up.

I'm not an IT professional like so many of you, so my plan is to teach
English online, which will make for a humble living.  But I will still be
paid in dollars, which will allow us to get by.  I spent two amazing weeks
in the Philippines back in March of this year, and I will see her again,
this coming March!  She is college educated/associate's degree, and works
as an accounts receivable clerk.  My love comes from a humble background,
but then so do I.  I need to raise twenty thousand dollars (any ideas on
how to raise funds quickly, please share), so that I can get an indefinite
stay Visa (proof of savings, and not a fee).  Or, I need to get a work
Visa, but if I were to lose the job for some reason, I could get deported!
And so that is what I have been up to, lately!  I have my work cut out for
me...


John  :  )




On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:08 AM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> BillW talks about giving it away, which is aimed at self-actualization,
> which tells me he is already good in the comfort and safety part of the
> ladder.
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> spike
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> Right - a few years ago when I was single I bought all the stuff I ever
> wanted - camera, stereo, PC, cooking gear, yard machines, plasma TV, and of
> course it was good that I never wanted a mansion, a yacht, etc. Now my main
> wants are books and I have enough money for those.
>
>
> Maybe there are those who are stuff-crazy and never get enough and are
> competing with friends ('the guy with the most stuff when he dies, wins'),
> but I think with age comes the realization that what is lacking is not more
> stuff but more and different experiences, which is not good for me because
> I can't travel (back, wife partially disabled).  Thanks to the web I can go
> places I can't visit, and when virtual reality gear comes of age I hope
> that I will be here to enjoy it.  Thanks to the web I can 'talk' to people
> all over the world.  I had an aunt who would love email.  You could not
> talk to her on the phone for long because she was deathly afraid of the
> telephone bill, even if I was paying.
>
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> bill w
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> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:26 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
>> Of *Dave Sill
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] What would you do if you won the billion dollar
>> plus MegaMillions Lottery, and are lotteries a bad thing?
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>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:25 AM William Flynn Wallace <
>> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>…I don't know how I would spend even one million dollars.  Two  people
>> in a giant mansion with servants everywhere?  Limousines?  Nah.  So I would
>> hire people to investigate charities and give most of it away… BillW
>>
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>> >…I'd ensure that my family was taken care of first--not to the level of
>> opulence, but to the point of not having to worry about
>> food/clothing/shelter/medical/etc. After that I'd use it advocating for
>> changes I'd like to see…  Dave Sill
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>> This exchange reminded me of a concept they explained to us in
>> psychology.  BillW is likely already an expert in this: Maslow’s hierarchy
>> of needs.
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>> In retrospect I think BillW meant billion dollars rather than a million.
>> A million dollars isn’t a lot of money.  I have worked on projects with a
>> million dollar a year budget: you need to watch your pennies on that small
>> an effort, know exactly what you need to do, get er dun, get off the charge
>> number as soon as you can, don’t camp out on that number (as we space guys
>> used to say.)
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>> With a windfall billion, Dave is describing making sure all the comfort
>> and safety stuff is taken care of, for himself and his family but doesn’t
>> mention the status or self-actualization.  I would conclude he is already
>> good up there at the top.  BillW talks about giving it away, which is aimed
>> at self-actualization, which tells me he is already good in the comfort and
>> safety part of the ladder.
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>> Every society has people everywhere on the ladder, from those struggling
>> with self-actualization down to those struggling with getting sufficient
>> food and clothing, never mind shelter.  These latter are seen camping along
>> the freeways everywhere right around here.
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>> As society gets more prosperous, the bulk of the wealth is created by
>> those up near the top of that ladder (ah jeez, I think I just lit John
>> Clark’s fuse with that comment (Johnny, we know already, me lad, we
>> know.))  So the society which still has people at the bottom has all these
>> people pumping more and more money into climbing near the top of that
>> ladder.  Those lower rungs are a lot cheaper, but there is a lot less money
>> down there.
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