If I had $10 trillion dollars it would go in this order:
(1) As close to secret service level security as I could buy for myself. It seems that functionally, presidents post Reagan are no longer killable, or even shootable. Professional security seems to have gotten that good at the highest end.
(2) The same equivalent in medical care. Might have to go better than presidential level. Some combo of presidential level plus the ER room of Mass Gen, with close, 24⁄7 surveillance.
(3) Map my genome. Like a MadTV skit on Oprah once posited, have an institute devoted to finding cures for all that’s likely to kill me. Do this as nontransparently as possible.
(4) The best PR people, the best lawyers, the best investment managers.
(5) Minimum necessary charity not to be a pariah.
(6) The best cryonics care and estate planning for post-revival.
(7) If it’s impossible to hide being so much richer than everyone else, give as much of it away as I need to to still be one of the richest people in the world, but not so rich that I’m the number one target or impossible to socialize with some normalcy with other people. Of course, give it away to causes that will best maximize my persistence odds. If it isn’t necessary to give it away, keep it to spend as much as I can for some benefit in maximizing my persistence odds, and save and invest the rest.
There is a book by German Author Andreas Eschbach, that got translated into English. One poor young pizza delivery boy inherits one Trillion (Billion for non-US readers) Dollars and tries to save the world.
If I had $10 trillion dollars it would go in this order:
(1) As close to secret service level security as I could buy for myself. It seems that functionally, presidents post Reagan are no longer killable, or even shootable. Professional security seems to have gotten that good at the highest end. (2) The same equivalent in medical care. Might have to go better than presidential level. Some combo of presidential level plus the ER room of Mass Gen, with close, 24⁄7 surveillance. (3) Map my genome. Like a MadTV skit on Oprah once posited, have an institute devoted to finding cures for all that’s likely to kill me. Do this as nontransparently as possible. (4) The best PR people, the best lawyers, the best investment managers. (5) Minimum necessary charity not to be a pariah. (6) The best cryonics care and estate planning for post-revival. (7) If it’s impossible to hide being so much richer than everyone else, give as much of it away as I need to to still be one of the richest people in the world, but not so rich that I’m the number one target or impossible to socialize with some normalcy with other people. Of course, give it away to causes that will best maximize my persistence odds. If it isn’t necessary to give it away, keep it to spend as much as I can for some benefit in maximizing my persistence odds, and save and invest the rest.
There is a book by German Author Andreas Eschbach, that got translated into English. One poor young pizza delivery boy inherits one Trillion (Billion for non-US readers) Dollars and tries to save the world.