A) I would start a video rental service with no aim at profit. I will have money enough to not have to worry about making money. Instead, this business will be more about sending a message. We will rent out movies, but only good ones. We will not distribute shitty movies no matter how popular they are or how good So-n-So says they're supposed to be. Only movies I approve will be allowed in my store. If I don't have something you think should be included, you can petition for it. If I watch it and like it, then you win a prize for bestowing goodness upon me and opening my eyes. But if I watch a piece of shit for you then I charge you a penalty for wasting my time.
Rentals will be cheap, a dollar a day. None of that goofy stuff Blockbuster pulls. Our country spends far too much on entertainment. I might even make the place more like a video library than a rental store.
The store will will be divided into a few sections: one for great movies of high quality on a number of levels, and another for quirkier/not for everyone movies that have some aspect that makes them worth at least one watch. If other people manage the store for me, each manager as well as I will have a section of our top picks.
B) I'd also like to have a cafe called The Sleepy Walrus where there would be a number of comfy chairs and couches in addition to hardback chairs with tables and counters with stools. Actually, scratch that last one; no isolation is allowed. People will commune in my cafe, which will also have a fireplace.
C) I'd walk around with five grand in my pocket at all times so that whenever I see someone go out of their way to be nice to someone else, I could reward them extravagantly and anonymously for being a good person.
D) I'd like to get my own NBA team, possibly one which I'd name the Cincinnati Yak Fighters. Then whenever I'm watching sports I can literally have my own team to root for.
E) And because I'm not a saint, I would use my money to impress and seduce women. I would have money to spare for things that are worthless in the most direct of senses to me, but that women seem drawn to.
F) I may or may not get a bar/club called A Moment of Indiscretion.
G) A concert venue would be a must. I'd use it to attract the bands that I want to hear. It would be a moderately small indoor venue with mostly (if not all) standing room.
There are a great many things one can do with a large sum of money. Many people just think of what they would buy, what they could GET, but that is too small-minded. Money is meant to be USED, not spent, and definately not wasted. It's about what you can do with it, what you can accomplish. It is a means, not an end.
A lot of people forget that about money, that it, by itself sitting in a great pile, is worthless. The value lies in the possibilities that are opened up AFTER you've used it and it's gone. That's why I never understand rich criminals, white collar crime. What's the difference, really, between having ten million dollars and a hundred million? If you invested one million dollars, you could live comfortably off the interest alone.
I guess once you get a taste of something good, you just want more. Maybe money is like heroine and you just get hooked- or like how once you've seen one women naked it becomes important to try and see the rest of them naked as well.
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