Whenever the lotto payout starts to enter the millions, people tend dream about what could be done with a huge amount of money. I’m just as guilty as you are, though I’ve never bought a ticket, and it hasn’t happened in a really long time.
Almost invariably, the rundown goes kind of like this:
- Buy my mom a new house.
- Buy my dad a new car.
- Donate a bit to charity.
- Have one hell of a time with the rest.
Now, all of that tends to assume that you get a big, fat wad of cash all at once, which is rarely … if ever … the case. State-sponsored lotteries tend to pay out some percentage of the winnings over the course of a decade or two.
Well, forget about the large sum, and forget about the long-term payout. Let’s say that I have five-hundred U.S. dollars to hand over to you. The only stipulation is that you do not get to keep it. Rather, you are required to use it to make this world better, if only by an infinitesimally small margin.
So, what would you do? I know the CAPTCHA below is a pain in the arse, so feel free to mail me directly. My username at this domain.