You just won the lottery! What's your next move?

[Malacanos]

Buy a small piece of land in some country and declare it an independent nation of my own. Make it my own version of utopia.

[Vavlar]

Probably purchase a few acres of land and grow plants that I can use for myself and share with the local neighbors in the fall during harvests. Reason: Sometimes I feel like I need to move between areas and stay their for a few weeks or two months.

[Big Bad Blue]

Pull out a few million to live on and use the rest to sponsor demonstration projects for universal basic income. Just give money to the poor.

[Free Ravensburg]

1. Put on mask to claim money so people won’t recognize me
2. Buy the Society Islands
3.
4. Profit

[Chan Island]

Somebody link that reddit thread from 2014 answering it comprehensively please.

[Big Jim P]

Retire and become a hermit.

[Kanaka Maol]

I’d put 50 Million in my bank account to save for later and interest will make it worth more, and will probably spend the rest on College/My New Home that i’m getting.

[Ulajhan]

First off Firefly Season 2.

Second, off I'm going to get myself a humble apartment somewhere big enough just for me to hang and fill it with all kinds of electronic stuff I like and a refrigerator.

Third, try and finish writing a book thing...

Fourth I dunno give what I don't need away to appropriate charities that need it.

[Technoscience Leftwing]

* Buy citizenship on a Caribbean island, move there with your parents and relatives. Buy a house there without ostentatious luxury, but with the necessary premises (separate rooms for each of the family members, a living room, a large library, a training room with a pool and sauna, a small museum of nostalgic artifacts from my childhood). Set aside 10 million dollars for the maintenance of the mansion and relatives.
* Buy a conference room for negotiations and conferences, with hotel rooms for guests, with good protection against surveillance and attacks. Hire a good security guards.
* Hire headhunters who will travel to different countries and find energetic people there, whose views are similar to mine.
* Gather these people on the island in the conference room, and found the international "Bright Future". This organization is not to be registered with state bodies, the way it exists behind the scenes. The purpose of the organization: to contribute to the creation of a comfortable society for the majority of people on a global scale. Comfort is understood as the general availability of bread&circuses&leisure. The need of the active part of the population for creativity, knowledge and altruism is also taken into account. An unconditional basic income, social guarantees, the emancipation of life and culture, the unification of countries and ethnic groups into a single humanity ("melting pot"), secularism, and the displacement of living labor by automation are welcome.
* Create a website that promotes this ideal of a bright future, as well as a large library about revolutionaries and advanced thinkers of the past.
* Create a department that identifies people in different countries who are in solidarity with my ideal of the future, and promotes them to the authorities of different countries, helps them survive and take key positions in politics, science, culture, and business. Help them come to power in different countries, in case of instability and social upheaval.
* Establish a department that will identify individuals and organizations around the world that are dangerous and hostile to my ideal, and block their harmful activities.
* Develop an algorithm to replace me with a successor with the same views, by the time I grow old and become incapacitated.
* Invest some of the money in promising securities so that the fund does not deplete.

[True Europa State]

1. Save aside plenty enough for education (textbooks, tuition, etc)
2. Put a decent amount into investments (Maybe 30%)
3. Create the best gaming setup known to mankind
4. Give a lot of it to charity (about 20%)
5. The rest goes to my family and myself. My friends too, the real ones deserve some too.

[Imperial States of Duotona]

1) Donate a quarter to charity
2) Invest another 30%, so I at least have some in the future.
3) Buy a house and a car, not too flashy, with about 10% of it.
4) Keep the rest, giving to family and close friends if necessary.

[Araneberg]

I would buy citizenship in new-zealand. Pack up all of my luggage with my family (and possibly some friend) to move there. (Of course renovating and selling my home.) I would then buy a house, and an RV. After this i would donate half of the remaining money to charity. The other money will be used for food and bills.

[Bombadil]

No one knows, I retire to a Caribbean island. Preferably with lots of hookers and cocaine.

..and the rest you'd just waste?

Honestly, especially given the pandemic, I've realised I hardly need anything. I just don't buy very much and I can't think of anything I'd particularly care to buy even if I had squillions of cash. So I'd probably put some in the bank to cover me, and give most of it away to family and friends etc.,

[Torisakia]

Buy all the Super Sentai/Power Rangers merch I can find. So roughly about 2 items.

[Sundiata]

I'd give it all to the poor.

[Trivalve]

Use it to help pay off my Uni debt

[Valentine Z]

My family (my parents and my brother) and my close friend. A couple of relatives. Everyone else.. none the wiser.

I get that blood is thicker than water and there are a lot of genuinely good relatives that I have but for this sort of thing? You'll suddenly find yourself getting flooded with hundreds of messages like "Heyyyy, Valentine! Remember me?"

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In that particular order - a 21-speed mountain bike, a DSLR, a modest house... It's my dream to have a small little house. And I'll give the rest to a pet shelter or a non-profit. Not just donating the money, mind you, making sure that it's spent nicely and smartly.

[Fartzies]

I would buy jars and fart into them but invent a robot with my new money to discretely open it so that the fart can be opened on an unsuspecting victim that wronged me

[Trivalve]

My family (my parents and my brother) and my close friend. A couple of relatives. Everyone else.. none the wiser.

I get that blood is thicker than water and there are a lot of genuinely good relatives that I have but for this sort of thing? You'll suddenly find yourself getting flooded with hundreds of messages like "Heyyyy, Valentine! Remember me?"

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In that particular order - a 21-speed mountain bike, a DSLR, a modest house... It's my dream to have a small little house. And I'll give the rest to a pet shelter or a non-profit. Not just donating the money, mind you, making sure that it's spent nicely and smartly.

Yeah I can agree with the messages part of your post lol

[Rhodevus]

1) Hire a lawyer
2) Put everything into a trust
3) Give some out to siblings and close friends
4) Invest and live off the interest
5) Buy a boat

[Terminus Station]

Id hire a bunch of private investigators and make life a living hell for people who crossed me by digging up dirt on them and letting their community know.

[Trivalve]

Id hire a bunch of private investigators and make life a living hell for people who crossed me by digging up dirt on them and letting their community know.

What about hiring two private investigators to investigate each other?

[Terminus Station]

Id hire a bunch of private investigators and make life a living hell for people who crossed me by digging up dirt on them and letting their community know.

What about hiring two private investigators to investigate each other?

BIG BRAIN

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What about hiring two private investigators to investigate each other?

BIG BRAIN

No, very small brain because the two investigators will figure out what is going on in the first 24 hours and plot to milk you for all your cash.

[Radiatia]

If I won the lottery I'd be on the first flight to the US (either California or Texas), I would not pass go and I would not collect $200 because by that point I no longer need $200.

I wouldn't tell anyone or even say goodbye, but then there's not really anyone in my life to tell or who would miss me if I suddenly got rich and moved away.

There's also a strong possibility that I'd waste the money on elaborate visual puns, like having a shop with a sign that says it opens at 9am, and then closing it at 9:01am.