Member of the Month

hi_vis360
November, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

What would you do if you found $17 billion

profile picture
corona
Posts: 12803 - Karma: 32,817
A shipwreck that could have as much as $17 billion worth of gold, silver, and jewels was just found off the coast of Colombia. That's a mind boggling amount of wealth.

The boat was a Spanish boat sunk by that British full of wealth the Spaniards had plundered from the Inca.

Anyways now there are a bunch of legal battles happening over who has rights to the treasure. The Colombians say it's them; it's in their waters and they claim to have found it. A salvage company claims they found it in the 80's and made a deal then with the Colombians for 1/3 of it. And of course the Spanish are claiming it to be theirs, a hilarious claim considering it had only just been stolen month before during their genocide of the natives.

Anyways, treasure is cool.
Dec 6 2015 11:37PM
87 6
profile picture
Abu_Hajaar
Posts: 2751 - Karma: 3,907
arrrrrgghhhh
Dec 6 2015 11:43PM
2 0
profile picture
Sno.
Posts: 12155 - Karma: 6,152
Quit my job first thing tomorrow morning.

Then hire a financial advisor and legal team. Then kick my tenant out of my rental property. Then pay off all mortgages and bills for myself and my family. Then buy out all of the neighbors on my street, tear down their homes and restore our home's original purpose as a farm house with a full working farm. Then start my own business and travel a lot. Then buy pieces of property with cabins or homes in the places I love to visit the most--first and foremost on the madison river in montana.
Dec 6 2015 11:50PM
1 0
profile picture
Deforestation
Posts: 1606 - Karma: 3,194
Chronological order:
1. Buy a bunch of cool shit
2. Buy a bunch if coll shit for the fam
2. Donate a shittin to whatever college I want to go to so they accept me
3. Barely graduate because I'm skiing the whole time
4. Graduate
5. Travel the world
5. Ski more
6. Basically be a ski bum but buy the top of PCMR or something and build a hugeass fucking house on top
7. Party
8. Ski
9. Party
10. Retire (ski in Japan)
11. 10 involves moving to Japan
12. Donate to some charity
13. Be an old person with a lot of money

Basically a lot of skiing because I don't need to work

College is for the biddies + parties + because I would fuck myself over with 17 mil at 18 yo
Dec 6 2015 11:52PM
11 0
profile picture
JGWI
Posts: 2842 - Karma: 7,812
Donate about $16 billion of it to whatever I feel fit. Make sure my family and extended family are taken care of. And then use the remainder to build a bigass garage like Jay Leno's and live the rest of my days working/building cars and going to races. And maybe a BC ski trip every now and then.
Dec 7 2015 12:00AM
0 0
profile picture
Tinga
Posts: 11349 - Karma: 2,333
If I found $17 billion worth of gold and jewels I would have a lot of trouble selling it all. finding a fence and all that.
Dec 7 2015 12:04AM
5 0
profile picture
270on420out
Posts: 7513 - Karma: 51,156
I'd build an Olympic sized swimming pool and fill it with corn starch.
Dec 7 2015 12:06AM
9 0
profile picture
GayWolf420
Posts: 37522 - Karma: 121,460
two chicks at the same time, man.
Dec 7 2015 12:08AM
21 0
profile picture
Deforestation
Posts: 1606 - Karma: 3,194
JustGoWithItDonate about $16 billion of it to whatever I feel fit. Make sure my family and extended family are taken care of. And then use the remainder to build a bigass garage like Jay Leno's and live the rest of my days working/building cars and going to races. And maybe a BC ski trip every now and then.


Forgot to mention the cars I would buy:

lambo aventador
massive modded jeep wrangler
Porsche 918 spyder
Veyron
Rari 250 gto
Am db9
Land rover defender
Mini cooper (duh)
Dec 7 2015 12:10AM
2 0
profile picture
theabortionator
Posts: 51740 - Karma: 163,487
I would take what I could get and let the rest be, not mention it to anyone, not mention that I had been there, not mention that I had found anything, and definitely not post anything even mildly alluding to it on social media.

I bet a lot of people would post a selfie with it on facebook or instagram and then get robbed, shot, or lose it all in a legal battle. But that's because people are fucking morons.
Dec 7 2015 12:14AM
2 0
profile picture
JGWI
Posts: 2842 - Karma: 7,812
nfsoxForgot to mention the cars I would buy:

lambo aventador
massive modded jeep wrangler
Porsche 918 spyder
Veyron
Rari 250 gto
Am db9
Land rover defender
Mini cooper (duh)


Meh, I was thinking more of the classics and some drag cars. But yeah, I'd probably have to throw a Ferrari F12 and a Lambo or 2 in there as well.
Dec 7 2015 12:17AM
0 0
profile picture
250r
Posts: 2276 - Karma: 1,013
buy a farm in pemberton bc

open a paleo diet inspired gastropub with insanely high quality ingredients, charge extremely low prices...no way this sort of thing could ever make money

have like 3 chefs at my house, so i could go in the kitchen with them and fuck around with new ideas

buy a helicopter, a snowcat, some sleds, dirt bikes, atvs, trophy trucks, rock crawlers.

for the road, a direct injection 4cyl 250cc 2 stroke motorcycle, gtr r35, a f40, a few audis, a big ol deisel truck...fuck this is gunna go on for a while, in short i would have a lot of fucking cars.

my house would be built into the side of a cliff, with no real external structure.

a zip line going from my house to my ewok village summer tree home.

houses in france, japan, argentina, and the bvi

a benetau 10r sailboat, a farr 40, a swan 60+ something, i guess one of those big fuck off 120 footers too. maybe a power yacht thrown in, and a whole fuck load of offshore rib zodiacs

a plethora of hi fi speakers, a very high end gaming pc, as well as a full driving simulator

really though id just get into car racing...no way im gunna afford that shit im my lifetime...i will always be jealous of my dad for that. at least with sailing you can mooch your way into races for free.
Dec 7 2015 12:17AM
2 0
profile picture
Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
Buy a tesla p85D,

Buy A really nice Malibu VLX and put a model s motor/drive in it with three 85Kwh batteries
Dec 7 2015 12:53AM
0 0
profile picture
saskskier
Posts: 4774 - Karma: 10,005
1. Quit my job, but leave well (probably give a month or two notice in order for them to hire someone new)
2. Find a good wealth management team
3. Move and buy a house in a bigger city (Calgary or Vancouver) right away and then maybe a place in Revy and/or Japan and/or Austria and/or New York
4. Take care of my family and friends
5. Start working on how to give most of it away via charities, education/scholarships, scientific/medical/environmental research and projects, etc. Aka - become a full-time philanthropist
6. Get my pilots license (both plane and helicopter)
7. Get some toys
8. Do bizarre random things. Like, just post ads for crazy things (i.e. - new Ferrari or Lambo for a stupid price, like $2000 or houses for cheap) on Kijiji/Craigslist and see how long it takes for someone to respond.
Dec 7 2015 1:06AM
0 0
profile picture
roddy116
Posts: 10635 - Karma: 7,506
Buy a brewery and a few small houses in places i like to hang out at.
Dec 7 2015 1:18AM
0 0
profile picture
itzki
Posts: 444 - Karma: 1,344
I have very specific life goals

1. Buy an island in the Caribbean with a huge ass house and pool and have one of those surf machines they have on cruise ships in the backyard, also have a snowflex hill built on said island so i can shred and be warm, year-round!

2. have an airport built for the island with a fleet of private jets to bring new babes to the house every week, felice is invited only because he can bring all the cougars from whole foods

3. buy a massive yacht, name it "poon raft" and have parties bi-weekly on it (wednesdays and fridays)

4. basically now its a bigger, better playboy mansion on an island

5. play poker and smoke weed with bill gates, steve stepp, eric clapton, george clooney, richard branson, 2 chainz, robert downey jr, and obama, and then we all shred together

6. after several years i get bored with all these material things and become a buddhist and totally go off the grid for a while and live with monks in tibet, and begin to understand the path to enlightenment and stuff

7. return to america and donate any remaining funds to charity and leave some to my family, then leave earth on a rocket and do experiments and stuff nasa wants me to do and webcast it everywhere for people until i crash into the sun. but it'll be like really cool and televised and would be awesome. also highway to hell would be playing everywhere people watch it.

8. BUT WAIT I'M NOT ACTUALLY DEAD that was a high tech robotic sex doll i had bought during my playboy island days i used as a dummy on the rocket! i tell everyone i want to be an irl superhero now and robert downey jr calls me up b/c we used to smoke weedz together and gives me some pointers on how to be iron man so i do it but it isnt as cool as the movies so i retire for good and move back to the states with just my planks and a few changes of clothes, buy a vw bus, then give away the rest of the money i have left and ski bum until i die. also freeskier will write an article on me when im 60-70 and stept will do a doc on me if i make it to age 90 and im still bummin. i will also write a book by this point because who could live a life like this and not write a book?

9. die a hero, never live long enough to see myself become a villain even tho im like 170 as life extension technology has dramatically increased human life expectancy
Dec 7 2015 1:33AM
6 0
profile picture
skier58284
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 5,366
I would fund the construction of a city on a mountainside somewhere with very long winters, and have no cars in the city, have "roads"/trails going up-down and across the mountain city, have chairlifts going along every up-down road, and make it so that the only way to navigate the city is to take the chairlift up, and ski or mountain bike down. And have tow ropes on the across streets (the ones that are perpendicular to the fall line). And have a big building in the middle of the city that's mostly underground with a slanted glass roof that follows the contour of the mountain partly covered in snow with exposed glass and jumps so skiers can jump over the roof while people watch from inside. I would also get a few helicopters and do SSX-style races on the upper part of the mountain above the city, and sometimes have the races go through the city Metro City-style.

I would also ban snowboards. jk
Dec 7 2015 1:41AM
0 0
profile picture
Casey
Posts: 7875 - Karma: 24,672
I would probably start subverting congressional elections for the fun of it. Put together an army of lobbyists, tax professionals, business executives, current and former CIA and special forces to systematically undermine shit that I didn't like. Basically I would become Batman.
Dec 7 2015 2:07AM
0 0
profile picture
Crispy.
Posts: 6116 - Karma: 7,712
I would keep it and wear it and be ICED OUT 24/7
Dec 7 2015 8:18AM
0 0
profile picture
FastSpeed
Posts: 646 - Karma: 644
Go to college. Buy an estate in baker. Then a bunch apartments in places like Santa Cruz, revy, Jackson, and Japan. Build a huge ass garage, and buy a 918 spyder, a challenger hellcat, a ford raptor and a 1989 bow m3 and then convert a school bus to a ski pow finding machine. Buy a lifetime pass to ski cmh heli. Eat lots of bacon.




Oh yeahs and donate some some to charity and make my family set and stuff
Dec 7 2015 8:19AM
0 0
profile picture
JGWI
Posts: 2842 - Karma: 7,812
RusticlesBuy a tesla p85D,

Buy A really nice Malibu VLX and put a model s motor/drive in it with three 85Kwh batteries

Wait, you would take the Corvett engine out of the VLX and put in an electric one? Why?
Dec 7 2015 9:03AM
0 0
profile picture
Titus69
Posts: 9329 - Karma: 17,816
1. Help my family with payments along with other families I know in need.
2. Buy parents their dream home.
3. Help my oldest brother move to his own house with his girl.
4. Buy multiple ski houses.
5. Buy a lot of fucking cars.
6. Invest.
7. Travel all over, new Zealand, great Britain, japan, Switzerland.
8. Help my local mountain with their parks, money for features, and builds.
9. Put away a lot for retirement.
10. Start my own company
Dec 7 2015 10:33AM
0 0
profile picture
Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
JustGoWithItWait, you would take the Corvett engine out of the VLX and put in an electric one? Why?


Having a wakesetter with an electric motor would be the tits, surfing and wakeboarding with no noise or smoke from the engine, plus electric drive is superior in every way to gas if you have the power behind it, 3 85KWh batteries should do it. Plugging it in to a supercharger at the dock instead of dragging 100 liters of fuel down to the dock would be nice as well.
Dec 7 2015 11:47AM
0 0
profile picture
JGWI
Posts: 2842 - Karma: 7,812
RusticlesHaving a wakesetter with an electric motor would be the tits, surfing and wakeboarding with no noise or smoke from the engine, plus electric drive is superior in every way to gas if you have the power behind it, 3 85KWh batteries should do it. Plugging it in to a supercharger at the dock instead of dragging 100 liters of fuel down to the dock would be nice as well.

I wonder how long the batteries would last? I mean yeah teslas have a decent range if your easy on them. However, putting it in a boat like that would be balls to the walls all the time. Dragging fuel down does really suck though, especially for whose paying for it which I guess wouldnt really be an issue here.
Dec 7 2015 11:56AM
0 0
profile picture
_Ryan_
Posts: 1538 - Karma: 3,192
People talking about investing and going to school... LOL

Man this is fucking billions of dollars you don't need to do shit for the rest of your life, even if you had .1% of this money you'd be good for the rest of your life.

First off, i would deck myself out real quick with all the gear i need to do awesome shit for the rest of my life... Eg: Helicopter, clothes, car, jet, scuba gear, ski gear, ALL THE GEAR.

Then id spend the next 2 years travelling to every place i have ever dreamed of travelling. Each place making sure i leave at least 1mil for the local homeless.

Theoretically i could solve world hunger and end poverty.

I would start a company and realize all of the inventions and ideas i have had through my life. Try to solve problems with my money.

Along the way i have of course given my close friends and family everything they have ever needed and wanted.

Spend a couple billion on cleaning up the ocean.

Spend the rest of my days going between living on my island , scuba diving every day and just having a good time and skiing in one of my many ski houses i own around the globe :)

Go money!
Dec 7 2015 12:48PM
0 0
profile picture
Earl_Globz
Posts: 1555 - Karma: 818
DeebieSkeebiestwo chicks at the same time, man.


ding ding ding!
Dec 7 2015 1:02PM
0 0
profile picture
no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,273
That would be absolutely hilarious if Spain ended up getting the treasure. Terrible but hilarious
Dec 7 2015 1:16PM
0 0
profile picture
galaxia
Posts: 307 - Karma: 697
itzkiI have very specific life goals

1. Buy an island in the Caribbean with a huge ass house and pool and have one of those surf machines they have on cruise ships in the backyard, also have a snowflex hill built on said island so i can shred and be warm, year-round!

2. have an airport built for the island with a fleet of private jets to bring new babes to the house every week, felice is invited only because he can bring all the cougars from whole foods

3. buy a massive yacht, name it "poon raft" and have parties bi-weekly on it (wednesdays and fridays)

4. basically now its a bigger, better playboy mansion on an island

5. play poker and smoke weed with bill gates, steve stepp, eric clapton, george clooney, richard branson, 2 chainz, robert downey jr, and obama, and then we all shred together

6. after several years i get bored with all these material things and become a buddhist and totally go off the grid for a while and live with monks in tibet, and begin to understand the path to enlightenment and stuff

7. return to america and donate any remaining funds to charity and leave some to my family, then leave earth on a rocket and do experiments and stuff nasa wants me to do and webcast it everywhere for people until i crash into the sun. but it'll be like really cool and televised and would be awesome. also highway to hell would be playing everywhere people watch it.

8. BUT WAIT I'M NOT ACTUALLY DEAD that was a high tech robotic sex doll i had bought during my playboy island days i used as a dummy on the rocket! i tell everyone i want to be an irl superhero now and robert downey jr calls me up b/c we used to smoke weedz together and gives me some pointers on how to be iron man so i do it but it isnt as cool as the movies so i retire for good and move back to the states with just my planks and a few changes of clothes, buy a vw bus, then give away the rest of the money i have left and ski bum until i die. also freeskier will write an article on me when im 60-70 and stept will do a doc on me if i make it to age 90 and im still bummin. i will also write a book by this point because who could live a life like this and not write a book?

9. die a hero, never live long enough to see myself become a villain even tho im like 170 as life extension technology has dramatically increased human life expectancy


nice work, legitimately lost it big time in the library at "BUT WAIT, NOT ACTUALLY DEAD..."
Dec 7 2015 1:16PM
1 0
profile picture
Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
JustGoWithItI wonder how long the batteries would last? I mean yeah teslas have a decent range if your easy on them. However, putting it in a boat like that would be balls to the walls all the time. Dragging fuel down does really suck though, especially for whose paying for it which I guess wouldnt really be an issue here.


I'm not sure how well they would work, hopefully with three batteries in there you would have enough juice for a couple hours of surfing, I wonder if you would have to hook them up in parallel instead of using one after the other just so that they could sustain the continuous load of surfing. it wouldn't be the first electric boat, Epic makes an electric wake boat.

Dragging Jerry cans down to my boat (no marina fuel station) is a huge pain in the ass, then getting the fuel pump out and pumping it into the boat............. I guess with 17billion I could hire people to fill the boat LOL
Dec 7 2015 2:20PM
0 0
profile picture
dustygoldflakes
Posts: 484 - Karma: 700
Isis_rocksForgot to mention the cars I would buy:

lambo aventador
massive modded jeep wrangler
Porsche 918 spyder
Veyron
Rari 250 gto
Am db9
Land rover defender
Mini cooper (duh)

You forgot LaFerrari and P1
Dec 7 2015 2:33PM
0 0
profile picture
_salty_
Posts: 672 - Karma: 1,034
Isis_rocksForgot to mention the cars I would buy:

lambo aventador
massive modded jeep wrangler
Porsche 918 spyder
Veyron
Rari 250 gto
Am db9
Land rover defender
Mini cooper (duh)


For me it's
LFA
Wide body 458
Huracan
Vanquish V12
The holy trinity( p1,LA,918)
Continental gt3
997 Gt3 rs
PPI r8 v10 (Jon olsson's)
Dec 7 2015 3:17PM
0 0
profile picture
DanielPlainview
Posts: 391 - Karma: 1,707
1. Buy 10 $50 million homes
2. live off the remaining $16.5 billion for the rest of my life
Dec 7 2015 3:28PM
0 0
profile picture
Rennis_Deynolds
Posts: 2739 - Karma: 19,059
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/799116/How-Do-Ya-Like-a-Taste-of-the-Good-Life---It--39-s-Always-Sunny-in-Philadelphia
Dec 7 2015 3:29PM
1 0
profile picture
e~b
Posts: 861 - Karma: 2,735
UncleJoe1. Buy 10 $50 million homes
2. live off the remaining $16.5 billion for the rest of my life


honestly didn't even realize how much money this was till you said this. thats fucking insane
Dec 7 2015 3:57PM
1 0
profile picture
saskskier
Posts: 4774 - Karma: 10,005
If you live another 70 years, you would have to spend roughly $665,000 every day for the next 70 years to spend it all.

Also, consider if you were to put that in a plain, old savings account. You are making $850 million/year if your interest rate is .05%. That's another $2.3 million you need to spend every day just to pay the interest (at least at first).

It's staggering how much money that is.
Dec 7 2015 4:11PM
1 0
profile picture
theabortionator
Posts: 51740 - Karma: 163,487
e~bhonestly didn't even realize how much money this was till you said this. thats fucking insane


Yeah it's a fuck ton of money. That would fund America's foreign policy for at least .00001 seconds
Dec 7 2015 4:15PM
2 0
profile picture
turducken
Posts: 749 - Karma: 601
Buy a mountain top castle. Fund the Republican and Democrat parties - also all local and state elections. Hire morally corrupt scientists to create a deadly super virus that only I have the cure for. Hire investigators, detectives etc to bug and implement surveillance in all the worlds top schools/colleges giving me information to blackmail future leaders. Create regional conflicts and geopolitical shitstorms and use my connections to soothe tensions. Then rule the world from my mountain top castle.
Dec 7 2015 5:07PM
0 0
profile picture
-MK-
Posts: 3253 - Karma: 5,332
Buy a new pair of skis, and as much blow as I can get my hands on.

Oh yeah, I would also buy just as much of a pizzeria as I would need to, to receive free pizza for life.
Dec 7 2015 5:08PM
1 0
profile picture
S.J.W
Posts: 7609 - Karma: 31,186
I could probably finally afford a day ticket at Vail
Dec 7 2015 7:01PM
3 0
profile picture
Spagett+
Posts: 3499 - Karma: 14,884
Buy NS and ban every member.
Dec 7 2015 7:02PM
2 0
profile picture
HAMNATION
Posts: 814 - Karma: 1,722
I'd buy a car that all the windows rolled down in and the washer fluid squirter worked on and I didn't have to top off the oil with every tank.



Probably eat drink and ski classy too.
Dec 7 2015 7:16PM
0 0
profile picture
dyer
Posts: 619 - Karma: 964
i'd get my life in order and spend money on a ton of shit
Dec 7 2015 7:21PM
0 0
profile picture
49566738265
Posts: 0 - Karma: 7,704
The referenced post has been removed.


Catch up on your classic films my man.
Dec 7 2015 7:23PM
0 0
profile picture
HAMNATION
Posts: 814 - Karma: 1,722
Dustin.Catch up on your classic films my man.


but alotta chicks don't go for that
Dec 7 2015 7:25PM
0 0
profile picture
Rennis_Deynolds
Posts: 2739 - Karma: 19,059
The referenced post has been removed.


was waiting for someone to post this
Dec 7 2015 7:45PM
0 0
profile picture
000000000000
Posts: 843 - Karma: 1,552
1) Purchase A LOT of land.
2) Grow organic foods and herbs
3) Make large contributions to those in need.
4) Travel wherever
5) Live simply
Dec 7 2015 7:52PM
0 1
profile picture
DirtYStylE
Posts: 3652 - Karma: 8,889
That's enough to end world hunger, man.
Dec 7 2015 11:19PM
0 0
profile picture
Squirrel_Murphy
Posts: 2195 - Karma: 1,165
I would hire an entourage that would protect my butt 24/7 from getting pee'd into, and I would pay them very well.

And then I would pee into everyone else's butts. I would pee into as many butts as possible until my money ran out and then go around pee butt shaming everyone. I'd go as far as pulling my butt apart just to taunt everyone and make them feel inferior to me because my butt would be in-fact free from any urine whatsoever.
Dec 7 2015 11:49PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)