I would do the R&D to create an electronic camouflage for large areas to avoid detection from the air. Welcome to the Gulch.

Fund a massive number of entrepreneurial ventures worldwide via microlending and microinvesting. Plow the profits back into more of the same.

And require the entrepreneurs I deal with to attain basic literacy in free-market principles and practices.

Wow! What a fun way to screw with the Demobribe Party. And Broom Hillary!

I'd buy myself some government officials. I hear the going price for Senators is pretty reasonable and Congressmen as well. Secretary of State is rather expensive, costing around $200 million ATM. I think Secretary of Health and Human Services might be an easier buy.

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In reality, I'd buy my own little country in Central America. Or maybe Africa.

Only problem I see is in 7 years, that $100Bn(seems conservative to me) might be worth $250. --grins-- But I like this... put the money where it will do the most good to spread objectivist capitalism (and make a ton of profit!!)

Buy gold.

Build a Galt Gulch?..Or...start buying valuable but corrupt corporations, make them private and straighten them out so that they no longer harm the consumer.

If I had as much money as that, I would make a lot of trouble for a lot of ideological opponents--by promoting "everything you hate," to quote Orson Welles as "Citizen" Charles Foster Kane. And if you want to know all the kinds of things I would promote, send me a private message.

But among other things, I just might build more than just one privateering ship. Think Ragnar Danneskjöld's Task Force! And I would have a precedent for that. The infamous "Boz" Jean Lafitte had a fleet of sea raiders, not just one ship.

Absolutely an Excellent reply!

I would invest companies founded by people in their who reminded me of myself when I was starting, and I would try to advise them (i.e. being a sometimes-annoying angel) on how to do what I did or better. I would do a mix of long-shots and conservative investments, with the goal of having $100 billion in seven years.

My favorite long-shot is a business incubator in a remote site that has a shot at becoming Gulch of sorts.

You have to ask?
Just call me Midas.

I know the source of the question, but it is a good one.

1) I would fund organizations to spread objectivism,
2) I would fund research into solving some of the problems in physics related to Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics.
3) I would fund research into my ideas on economics.
4) Most of my money would be part put in a invention/venture capital fund. I love working on and with inventors and new technology.
5) Fund entertainment projects that push more or less objectivist ideas.

In my case I would do more traveling, including a 6 month stint on a catamaran in the Caribbean.

Not necessarily in that order.