Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?

Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by samwise on Thursday September 25, 2008 @03:20PM (#315254)

hehe

I would invest it. I would buy most of wall street and wait for it to bounce back. Turn that 700b to 10 trillion.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by einarvollset on Thursday September 25, 2008 @05:23PM (#315429)

Yeah cause you're gonna notice the difference between 700b and 10trillion..

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by run4yourlives on Thursday September 25, 2008 @05:25PM (#315433)

And then what?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by yters on Thursday September 25, 2008 @07:28PM (#315564)

A person can do a lot for the world with 10 trillion.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by dhotson on Friday September 26, 2008 @12:11AM (#315739)

Could you give an example? :)

I think it would actually be pretty hard to find ways to spend that much money. 10 trillion is an awful lot.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by yters on Friday September 26, 2008 @11:46PM (#316713)

Supposedly eliminate poverty worldwide: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315521

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by dhotson on Saturday September 27, 2008 @12:44AM (#316745)

I'm not convinced that we can solve the worlds big problems like poverty just by spending money.

I don't claim to have the answers.. but I think it will take a lot more than money to solve these problems. That's assuming they can even be solved at all.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by yters on Saturday September 27, 2008 @11:45PM (#317391)

That's probably true, there are always evil people around.

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