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The Powerball lottery is up to $1 billion tonight. If you won it, what would you do?

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[โ€“] darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Utah managed to do it and they're doing just fine.

[โ€“] downpunxx@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ok. you can afford to fund Utah's homeless problem for 1.5 years, with 500 million, which is what you'd be left with after winning the 1 Billion dollar lottery

https://utahstories.com/2022/10/the-300-million-utah-homeless-question/#:~:text=Answered%20by%20Utah's%20Foremost%20State,year%20on%20Utah's%20homeless%20services.

[โ€“] darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can always start a foundation to keep the money flowing in. People would donate

[โ€“] TheYear2525@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably more cost effective to pay off local and state politicians to get tax money diverted to it.

True. That's lobbying I can get behind

[โ€“] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Foundations do not exist to solve problems. They exist so their founders can profit either socially and financially off of them.