With 500 million dollars (or 250 after taxes, Starlet tells me), I could pretty much live off of interests for the rest of my life. Doing that, I'd have roughly 12.5 million dollars to spend yearly.
I'm not really the person to show off my wealth, at least not extreme wealth. I'd get a pretty nice house, but it's unlikely that it would cost more than a few million dollars. Then I'd get some nice cars but those would probably not cost more than a few millions added together either.
I would get a supercomputer cluster that could rival that of many universities to keep in the basement of my house, which I would use to donate computing power to scientific research. That would be my form of charity. I'd probably also use a lot of money on kickstarter campaign, and run away with the 10000 dollar rewards pretty often.
I'd try to keep a low profile, as I don't think i'd be able to know who my real friends were if everyone knew how much money I had.
I'd give my money to my family when I died. Hopefully most of the money would still be there.
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