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That's where my thought process started. Buy a house for myself and two family members. Buy a new premises for my friend's business so he doesn't have to worry about rent and can keep providing a much-needed service for our community. Ditto for where I volunteer. Solar panels for the house.
Ok, that's the first 3 million gone.. new radiator for my car, bunch of stuff for my hobbies, set up a bus route past my house to replace the one that was cancelled years ago, fund mental health service by me for a few years.
That's another maybe 5 million gone and several new people employed. Still 992 million left. This is getting tricky. Buy 50 holiday homes and turn them into low- or no-cost rentals to help struggling people. 10 million to this rewilding charity that I like. 10 million to the science museum in London that I like. 10 million in my bank, just in case. 1 million to everyone that I like, why not?
Let's say that another 70 million gone, still haven't even got 10% of the way there. Give 5,000 to everyone in my local town - I'm sure they'll enjoy it. That's 100million gone. Now we're getting somewhere. Buy the bus company by me and run all their services twice as often and for free. I hear the local university might be in trouble, let's throw 10million to them. Overhaul the local planning department because they suck. Let's employ three times as many people so they can actually do their job. Fund training for like 200 extra nurses and doctors from my local area provided they work for the NHS for a couple of years after.
That's got to be halfway by now, right? Maybe? Fuck, a billion [currency] is just so much money...