If you had all the money in the world, would you be doing what you’re doing now?

If I had every single cent of money in the world I'd be hiding in the most remote out of reach place possible because that'd be an instant death sentence.

Pedantry aside (I'm fun at parties, I swear), if I had what I'm sure you just meant as "f*** you money" I'd be in a villa in the south Pacific like bora bora or Tahiti and doing f*** all, all day, every day and twice again on Sundays.

I would not give up my job but I probably would not charge for services.  I might reduce my hours, though. 

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No, I'd probably get a PhD in something super niche (like facial recognition technology or something like that) if I could get into a good program. Maybe I'd hate academia, so I could be wrong. But I would still be tech focused and still have software engineering as my primary job, albeit perhaps even more specialized. 

I have done finance for more than a decade now, so I don't have to prove anything to anyone or myself any longer. With enough money I'd resign and just live my life, start a family, and retro-mod cars. Lots of travel also.

I would still work but for myself, work on several charities, tour the world.

Yes, but in a much nicer place, on a much bigger tv, with much better whiskey. 

No, I'd quit. I don't even need all the money in the world LOL just enough passive income such that I have my living expenses covered. My job is great for building up that income though :)

No I would just focus on making music.

Lol fuck no I’d quit and travel the world

I have responsibilities with my family so would keep doing that, but maybe buy a house and a new car.

I've had that fantasy of winning some ridiculous lottery or something. Here's the list for that:

1. Don't tell a soul. Friends & family will be the worst pests. 
2. Crush my phone on the way to Walmart to pick up a new burner phone. Don't call me, I'll call you. 
3. New email address too. Don't email me, I'll email you. 
4. Have a chat with a lawyer that I trust to handle things for me stateside. Buy my own Tom Hagen.
5. Go to the international terminal at my airport, look at the big board and pick whatever is leaving soon and sounds interesting. Most likely somewhere in Mexico to start off and calm down. Something remote and near a beach. 
6. Call Hagen and have him set up a new charity plan. Every high school that beats my old high school in any sport at any given time gets $10k for each win. Fuck my high school
7. Call Hagen to reach out to my university and have a building on campus named after me. 
8. Assemble the best team of doctors and dietitians that I can to extend my life as long as possible. 

From there my life would involve a lot of moving around and a lot of playing golf on courses with nice views. That's it, that's all I want out of life. 

Yes but I’d run my own fund / money. Fuck outside capital and fuck working for the man 

Start an animation studio. My dream has always been building a legacy of animated movies like Ghibli. Though my name be forgotten with the passage of time, I hope the beauty of the world through my animations live on and men and women of the future can see what I dream.

I would continue managing only my own money like a fund manager, growing my business and travel to 2-3 countries a year. Ensuring I have systems and disciplines in place so it's sustainable financially and personally over the long term.

I would retire 

I’d travel around and golf different places, and probably take my close friends with me. Maybe buy a yacht and go check out Europe.

I have a business idea related to golf that I’d pursue with the extra cash, so that would be my job.

I’d be doing exactly what I am now, with a little more exotic weekend traveling. I enlisted in the Army because that’s what I wanted to do, I’m currently doing a very specific job here that has real world impacts and I’m playing my role in furthering US interests around the world. I’m lucky that I come from decent family money and will never have to worry financially, so the difference between what I have now and “all the money in the world” is that I’d be able to take slightly more extravagant weekend vacations- staying at a 4/5 star hotel at the base of the mountain instead of crashing an Airbnb with some guys, or eating out at a Michelin star restaurant every week instead of the once-every-other-month I currently try to.

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I would try to work for at least a few years. Highly doubt I would stay in IB forever, though, if money was already taken care of. I would take time to travel and possibly find some large project to support. Pretty bullish on space / off-Earth commerce, but it's at least a few decades out at this point. Could be neat to make early stage investments in that realm, though.

I’d quit my job and start my own independent consulting business providing career guidance and mentorship. Then I’d pack everything I own and send half of it to my parents in Florida and bring the other half with me to an island in Italy. The leftover items I’d donate.

I’d find a beautiful place with a view of the ocean where I can relax, read books, practice Italian, eat amazing food, and meet interesting people in my travels. I’d join a couple of soccer teams to make friends and socialize. I’d also pick up kite-surfing, bouldering, and other sports to stay in shape.

Each winter I’d go to Florida to spend time with my family, and during the summer I’d return to Europe and repeat the above in whichever country I fancied that year…

And on that note, if anyone finds themselves in southern Sardinia this summer, shoot me a message to meet up. Ciao!

Technically, if you in fact had all the money in the world (implying no one else has anything whatsoever), that money would be worthless as everyone else will just start using something else to transact. 

PhD in Physics, teaching at a university and working on theoretical physics research in either nuclear fusion physics or particle physics.

Certainly not. If I had all the money in the world I would just skip what I'm doing now: learning finance, making connections, and getting practical finance experience, and just find some likeminded individuals and launch my own VC fund instead of having to recruit for other's.

With my newfound money and power, I would slowly start crafting the new VC world order in which there won't be countries or governments. Everythign will be VC-backed. My first acquisition will be Argentina and after turning their economy around, governments around the world will see the genius in my ideas and willingly submit into my VC world order. Governments will be disbanded and people will no longer associate themselves with their race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. The only characteristic that will matter will be which VC is backing you. When a baby is born, their stats (DNA, DNA of the parents, economic status of the parents, etc.) will go straight into my investment committee. If I like the baby, I will choose to fund it: pay for its education and then once he graduates university, I get a yearly dividend from his income or the baby could appreciate in value if he starts a successful start-up which then IPOs in which case I would get stock in the company as my dividend. 

Instead of governments, large plots of lands will be owned directly by corporations, but who will own those corporations if not VC funds. Eventually the world will have similar borders as it does today, but instead of continents you will have VC-regions (the region in which the VC houses its portfolio companies) and instead of countries you have PortCo-regions (regions given by the VC to the company so that they may house their operations). I've been told that public transportation in uberland is great and absolutely everyone is depressed in metaland.

Absolutely not. I would quit the corporate world and do whatever I felt like doing. You never know when it's your time to go. 

Buy a huge condo in a miami hotel on the water, with a dope grill on a huge balcony and manage my own money + rich friends and family.

Buy a sick vacation house and boat and party with friends.

Buy my parents a vacation house in Israel or another country they enjoy.

Quit my job and surf around the world until I get bored. Once I get bored, think what I want to do with my life

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