If you were rich as hell

[Victorious Decepticons]

Let's start with $1BN USD infinity dollars, because inflation, and because they're always some other thing to buy, no matter how rich I am.

[Added - I had forgotten about the big one! Try to get some country to sell me an island and sovereignty over it so I would be the dictator of my own larger-than-micro nation (I'm figuring that about 200 households would be enough to start with). If I succeed at that, all of the below would change! The below assumes that I actually remain in the USA as a regular, though rich, citizen.]


1. *Price is Right voice* A NEW CAARRRR! Mine was great when I bought it new...17 years ago. Now it almost qualifies for Vintage plates. Time for a new, new car.
1a. A huge pickup truck. It's annoying not being able to carry loads of 2x4s and other wood for projects. Might as well fix that while I'm at it.

2. Buy up the vacant land that's around me, and start creating my private fiefdom.

3. Down goes the old house. Up goes the new block house. Cat 5-proof, complete with full automatic generator system, which will use solar as the main fuel and gas/propane as a backup for nights or cloudy days. However, I wouldn't make the house all that big. Giant mansions look impressive, but every extra room is another room that needs cleaning, and I don't want it to be such a job that it couldn't be done without a staff.

4. Speaking of a maid~! I'd hire one right away. I don't want to depend on staff, but that's not the same as not having any staff!

5. Palace of Versailles-like gardens everywhere, with gardeners to do the weeding.

6. A new, big, commercial rider mower, which I ride myself, because I really enjoy riding lawn machines and having the place look better just because I had fun.

7. Buy an F-15 and have it painted up like my RP character, General Carjack, complete with Decepticon Seals. Also hire all associated maintenance personnel, etc.
7a. Learn to fly it and then do so, a lot!

8. Hire a top-notch engineer to seriously try to make the above into a real Transformer, physically speaking, with no weakness in either mode to cause it to crash or fall over and kill me. (Of course, I would go for a mech version instead of a full-on "real Decepticon" [strong AI with a Decepticonnish personality baked in] I...I do want to be able to play with my giant toy, not have it decide that it'll take over the Earth, starting with me!)

9. A Lamborghini like the one in OP's flag would look good in my yard.

10. Set up a foundation to propagate competent entrepreneurs, and do its best to hammer nails into the coffin of the institution normally referred to as "employment." Only those who pass the personality and basic intelligence test, which shall be derived by the Fuck Work Foundation (working name), will be eligible. People who can't see their way past a McDonald's fryer can just go apply there.

11. Lead a lot of studies to figure out how to genetically engineer adults so that I can code all of the negative effects of aging out of myself, not only present, but in the future as well. In other words - Forever Young.

12. I was reading about all of the obsolete, broken-down water systems in the US, too. Might as well fix those. In rural areas, convert the people to well water instead, except where the groundwater is too polluted. Well water is delicious, chlorine free, and the systems are easy to fix in comparison to municipal ones.

[The Republic of Fore]

Buy a couple sports cars, maybe a nice house. Private jet to ride around in of course. Then probably invest the rest.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Overthrow capitalism by investing heavily in automation.

That's an odd way of saying "become the capitalist classes greatest ally".

[Hanafuridake]

Buy Cambodia and become Devaraja.

[First American Empire]

Keep a few million, then donate all the rest to as many left-wing election candidates as legally possible.

[Saiwania]

In this situation I might bank roll an Alt-Right takeover of the US. We'll see if the Presidency and the courts and the legislatures really can be bought.

[Salus Maior]

I would buy a lot of land, and build an environmentally conscious Catholic community.

Depending if by rich you mean really rich.

[Paleoconservative Citizens]

I would save up about 10 million and not spend it on anything unnecessary, then I'd use the rest for random acts of charity and perhaps to fund some missionaries.

[US-SSR]

Give most of the money to the poor. No need to worry about me though, I'd be fartin' through silk.

[Kowani]

Overthrow capitalism by investing heavily in automation.

That's an odd way of saying "become the capitalist classes greatest ally".

The Ouroboros of Capitalism, mate.

[Washington Resistance Army]

That's an odd way of saying "become the capitalist classes greatest ally".

The Ouroboros of Capitalism, mate.

Empowering the capitalists to the point that they'll be more powerful than ever before in history in the hopes they'll devour themselves is an exceedingly dangerous gambit.

[Kowani]

The Ouroboros of Capitalism, mate.

Empowering the capitalists to the point that they'll be more powerful than ever before in history in the hopes they'll devour themselves is an exceedingly dangerous gambit.

Well, no. See, if you automate everything, you’re gonna have a lot of people who don’t have jobs. No jobs, no purchasing. No purchasing, no capitalism.

[Aaaaaa]

Ask myself "Why am I suddenly rich for no reason?".

[Narland]

Fixed #24. Buy and island in the middle of nowhere no mere "Buy"

1. Buy a working cattle ranch in one of the freer States like Wyoming or Idaho
2. Start a self-driving trucking company to get the cattle to market
3. Lobby congress to get rid of the idiot laws passed in the late 60s through the 70s forbiding Ranchers from owning subsidiaries such as restaurants featuring their own meats, butcher shops, deli's etc.
4. Start a chain of restaraunts featuring my Ranch's meats.
5. Sponsor Food Garden Clubs accross the land and Self-Sufficency gardens in urban areas.
6. Grow and encourage growth of Heritage Cultivars.
7. Invest in Education Reform, supporting charter schools, improving common schools, and esablishing home-schooling cooperatives.
7. Start my own offshore banking interests and business concerns out of Cayman, or Turks
8. Invest in worldwide shipping consortiums and commerce with Singapore, Hong Kong, Busan, Manilla, etc
9. Support engineers, technicians, and scientist who think out of the box to design manned spacecraft to Mars and beyond.
10. Support engineers, technicians, and scientists who think inside the box to make them.
11. Buy a supercar. Reverse engineer the supercar, then make my own supercar.
12. Buy a self-navigating superyacht and have it circumnavigat the world for me, so I don't have to.
13. Donate actual cancer research. Utilize charities where 100% of the proceeds go to the intended person. Encourage worthwile charities to set themselves up so that the can acheive 100% effeciency.
14. Travel to Antarctica to talk to the Penguinistas.
15. Find a mail order bride
16. Get married
17. Have kids
18. adopt some children from foster care or other places
19. Groom politicians wth curricula scholarships, special shools and summer camps to run for future legislators, governors, jusctices, congressmen, and presidents in the love of liberty
20. Encourage of love of Learning, Liberty, Enterprise and Goodwill through Internet and media.
20. Establish Evangelical Seminaries across the globe for the advencement of the gospel.
21. Establish Colleges for the Arts and Sciences across the globe for the advancement of civilization.
22. Establish online libriaries with access to all.
23. Create my own science lab, my own library, my own university to get answers to quesitons that I have.
24. Buy an island in the middle of nowhere to ponder the answers.
25. Live to 157 years of age or die trying or maybe have my brain stuffed in a robot body when possible.

[Australian rePublic]

1. Buy a working cattle ranch in one of the freer States like Wyoming or Idaho
2. Start a self-driving trucking company to get the cattle to market
3. Lobby congress to get rid of the idiot laws passed in the late 60s through the 70s forbiding Ranchers from owning subsidiaries such as restaurants featuring their own meats, butcher shops, deli's etc.
4. Start a chain of restaraunts featuring my Ranch's meats.
5. Sponsor Food Garden Clubs accross the land and Self-Sufficency gardens in urban areas.
6. Grow and encourage growth of Heritage Cultivars.
7. Invest in Education Reform, supporting charter schools, improving common schools, and esablishing home-schooling cooperatives.
7. Start my own offshore banking interests and business concerns out of Cayman, or Turks
8. Invest in worldwide shipping consortiums and commerce with Singapore, Hong Kong, Busan, Manilla, etc
9. Support engineers, technicians, and scientist who think out of the box to design manned spacecraft to Mars and beyond.
10. Support engineers, technicians, and scientists who think inside the box to make them.
11. Buy a supercar. Reverse engineer the supercar, then make my own supercar.
12. Buy a self-navigating superyacht and have it circumnavigat the world for me, so I don't have to.
13. Donate actual cancer research.
14. Travel to Antarctica to talk to the Penguinistas.
15. Find a mail order bride
16. Get married
17. Have kids
18. adopt some children from foster care or other places
19. Groom politicians wth curricula scholarships, special shools and summer camps to run for future legislators, governors, jusctices, congressmen, and presidents in the love of liberty
20. Encourage of love of Learning, Liberty, Enterprise and Goodwill through Internet and media.
20. Establish Evangelical Seminaries across the globe for the advencement of the gospel.
21. Establish Colleges for the Arts and Sciences across the globe for the advancement of civilization.
22. Establish online libriaries with access to all.
23. Create my own science lab, my own library, my own university to get answers to quesitons that I have.
24. Buy to ponder the answers.
25. Live to 157 years of age or die trying or maybe have my brain stuffed in a robot body when possible.

Point number 5 will completely the economic model that you outlined in points 1-4

[Ghost Land]

[Added - I had forgotten about the big one! Try to get some country to sell me an island and sovereignty over it so I would be the dictator of my own larger-than-micro nation (I'm figuring that about 200 households would be enough to start with). If I succeed at that, all of the below would change! The below assumes that I actually remain in the USA as a regular, though rich, citizen.]

This sounds totally groovy! I'd be 100% up for that, and my people would have the best standard of living and highest life expectancy in the world. Scandinavia and Japan will be looking at me with jealousy, wondering how in the heck we do it.

Personally I'm still sticking with my idea from the last page, of traveling endlessly and seeing the entire world.

[The Free Joy State]

Using the OP's figure of $580 million (£472 million), I would:

1. Regain consciousness
2. Set up a fund to ensure the comfort and care of my closest relatives
3. Set up an account to provide myself with a comfortable lifetime income
4. Travel
5. Donate to some local good causes -- a local hospice that cared for relatives of mine, et cetera
6. Buy a house
7. ... Haven't thought beyond that.

[-Ocelot-]

I'd finally be able to afford to sit down and do absolutely nothing.

[Greater Miami Shores and La Habana Cuba]

The usual, a nice car, a nice house, which I already have, take more vacations to different nations, help family and friends, help strangers directly not true charities, I prefer a nice big house just big enough for my needs not a mansion, no work ever again.

I have vacationed on Miami Beach hotels, my vacation to Niagara Falls Canada, my 3 vacations to Puerto Rico hotels, my 3 vacations to Santo Domingo Dominican Republic's Puerto Plata and Punta Cana hotel resorts, with everything included free of charge on my all included tourist package, lol.

Actually I have close Puerto Rican friends, a Cuban friend married to a Puerto Rican Lady and their Cubaricano kids who are 100 % Puerto Ricans with the Puerto Rican accent and all, the first time I stayed at their home in Puerto Rico, the second and third time at Puerto Rican hotels, I would help them out.

One of my family ancestors on one side of the family, emigrated legally the right way, from España La Madre Patria to Puerto Rico, one to Uruguay, one to Argentina and two to Cuba, I now also have Puerto Ricans in the family.

[State of Turelisa]

If I were to suddenly come into wealth tomorrow, let's say 500 million pounds sterling I would donate 10% of it to the Roman Catholic Church and various charities and lobbying groups here in the UK such as ones pertaining to wildlife, air ambulance, local youth groups and think tanks such as MigrationWatch or lobbying groups like the Countryside Alliance.

I would then buy a nice house and car for my mum and siblings along with tasteful furnishings and make sure they could live comfortably.

Now, being still a university student and in the student officer corps of the British Army I would continue these but buy myself a nicer dwelling up at university along with my own car and set aside fairly substantial funds for me to enjoy my life fairly well, buying nicer food and more clothes or myself along with other things. I'd also set aside a hefty sum for decent holidays and trips. The rest I would invest into low-risk assets and access them after leaving the army and buy myself a nice plot of land in the Cairngorms or Carneddau Mountains and have myself a quaint and sizeable cottage on which to raise a largeish family, a handful of cattle, sheep, geese, pigs and ducks. And I shall spend the remainder of my years smallholding, hunting and hosting dinners.

Spoken like a true Catholic.

[Eastern Aestorusia]

Catapult both myself or someone I can certainly support into an office of government in order to make other lives pleasanter.

[Rojava Free State]

Maybe i'd pull up in the drive through of my job and after ordering some food, I'd give a $ 1000 tip to whoever is at the window

[Christian Confederation]

Stupid Rich I'd buy majority share in Disney so I could force them to make good SW and MCU movies without all the SJW and idinity politics sh*t!

[Risottia]

I would start my own private school. With hookers and blackjack.

No, wait. More like "with mandatory university-level maths, programming, ancient greek and latin".

[Aclion]

Overthrow capitalism by investing heavily in automation.

The only way you'll overthrow capitalism that way is by automating so much that scarcity is a luxury.