Given a very large sum (say $100,000,000), you could easily live well and still retain most normal relations with people around you. Invest $10mil quietly in a personal heavily diversified portfolio through 2 different agencies (of solo if you have the chops). That should be more than enough to support you for the rest of your days without even touching principal. You could then quietly pay off all of your Big Debt (house note, car note, student loans, credit card debt, etc). After your big debt is gone, living expenses are exceptionally cheap. You could easily afford a modest 2 bed/1 bath house/condo in a nice/mostly nice neighborhood. You could drive around in a mostly new but not 'new' reliable car. In other words, your appearance and lifestyle can be very comfortable but never betray your actual finances. Going 'grey man' as is often thrown out there. The rest of your cash could be used to do lovely and interesting things.
For example, you could have a company that donates larges sums to life saving ventures like cancer research, etc through a shell company (think Delaware corp to preserve YOUR anonymity). Imagine what 20 or 30 million in a large high dividend portfolio could do donating yearly to these causes. At this point, you wouldn't even be using half of the above mentioned $100 mill but you could be making a huge difference and still maintain your anonymity.
You could quietly fund local art galleries, online radio stations, NPR, local and regional charities. You could fell ALL of the poor in your area....forever. End homelessness locally. Be the deciding monetary tipping point for localized/regionalized green energy. And you could do all this anonymously
Throwing money at organizations wont' make the world better automatically, but I'd like to think that a few 100 million towards the eradication of cancer might be worth the time, money, and effort. And that's just one worthy way to 'spend it all' and still maintain a relatively sane life.
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Given a very large sum (say $100,000,000), you could easily live well and still retain most normal relations with people around you. Invest $10mil quietly in a personal heavily diversified portfolio through 2 different agencies (of solo if you have the chops). That should be more than enough to support you for the rest of your days without even touching principal. You could then quietly pay off all of your Big Debt (house note, car note, student loans, credit card debt, etc). After your big debt is gone, living expenses are exceptionally cheap. You could easily afford a modest 2 bed /1 bath house/condo in a nice/mostly nice neighborhood. You could drive around in a mostly new but not 'new' reliable car. In other words, your appearance and lifestyle can be very comfortable but never betray your actual finances. Going 'grey man' as is often thrown out there. The rest of your cash could be used to do lovely and interesting things.
For example, you could have a company that donates larges sums to life saving ventures like cancer research, etc through a shell company (think Delaware corp to preserve YOUR anonymity). Imagine what 20 or 30 million in a large high dividend portfolio could do donating yearly to these causes. At this point, you wouldn't even be using half of the above mentioned $100 mill but you could be making a huge difference and still maintain your anonymity.
You could quietly fund local art galleries, online radio stations, NPR, local and regional charities. You could fell ALL of the poor in your area....forever. End homelessness locally. Be the deciding monetary tipping point for localized/regionalized green energy. And you could do all this anonymously
Throwing money at organizations wont' make the world better automatically, but I'd like to think that a few 100 million towards the eradication of cancer might be worth the time, money, and effort. And that's just one worthy way to 'spend it all' and still maintain a relatively sane life.