...the billion dollar lottery?🦫
Since I'm the skunk at the garden party I'll point out that winning a billion dollars could be a disaster. Young adult children could come undone if their parents endowed them with enough money to be Hunter Biden. There are lots of stories of lottery winners lives disintegrating. If it were me I would hope I would be very careful to arrange things to where any beneficiary had a lot of responsibility to work and behave. I have 3 adult children and 5 grandchildren, I would hate to ruin them as so often happens when kids know they have a huge inheritance coming.
Personally I would enjoy having more of what I have now, having people to do the hard work I have to do plus a good bit that doesn't get done now. And most of all being able to help good people having a hard time. For instance I have a good 65 year old neighbor that was born poor but has managed to put together some equipment and does dozer and backhoe work. I would love to buy him all new a dozer, a hoe, and and a dump truck, and maybe a year worth of fuel and turn him loose.
I have a nephew that is a really good kid but he has a touch of Aspergers syndrome which holds him back some. He did get a GED and when the Army was desperate they allowed some GEDs in the national guard. He is actually very intelligent, holds a job with an oil field supply company, and is married to a nice girl. I would love to set him up with something he could work at.
As far as my wife is concerned. She is a pediatric RN-NP and I cannot imagine she would retire. I know I would have to work hard at holding her back from giving undeserving patients and goofy relatives whatever they wanted. We are well off enough for our simple needs but I have had to pull back on the reins a lot of times when she would have helped people who were doing nothing to help themselves.
I know this has run on way too long, but suffice to say becoming suddenly rich can be a disaster. I know of a local man in the 1970s won$100,000 and ended up in prison after a spending spree.
