Provide food, housing, clothing, and other essentials to the people for free. Help them set up their own system of mutual support and solidarity. Make money irrelevant.

If money were no object, I would build a reusable-glass network and force Walmart, Target, Kohl's, etc. to start a global glass shipping program to take customer-returned glass products (like after you use up all the vinegar, mayonnaise, etc. in your glass jars, etc.) and get them back into the production factories for reuse. All containers would follow standardized sizes (several dozen classifications) to make reuse easy.

I would divest the world from fossil fuels, fund carbon capture. Build housing and mass transit like mad. Feed everyone who needs it, make education and healthcare human rights.

Basically star trek.

Lots of bad things to lots of bad people. To quote the Count of Monte Cristo: "I will surely use it for revenge."

Two chicks at the same time. I figure I could make that happen if I had infinite dollars.

I would spend billions of dollars ensuring that Trump dies poor and homeless.

I would start many companies and organizations based on open source business models developing various software and computer networking technology. The goal for each would be to become self-sustaining (paying employees appropriately but not necessarily attempting to generate profit), and with an objective of creating a unified suite of system administration tools that is equivalent to Microsoft's Active Directory - but 100% open source and interoperable rather than proprietary.

Absolutely none of the developed software would include or support any of the kind of surveillance-state functions that are part of the current trend of collecting data on users for "AI". If possible, technical methods for preventing any such data collection on users would be developed and implemented in every single project.

Overall the goal would be to out-compete every other computer networking product on the market in terms of convenience, stability and affordability - creating a complete set of best-in-class systems which act as a bulwark against any privacy-invading AI-enabled surveillance software.

*Edit: also some advocacy organizations like the ACLU and EFF with the same overall goal of reducing the global presence of surveillance-state garbage. Basically the antithesis of anything Peter Thiel is trying to do.

Build a time machine to travel back to the right moment in time to beat the shit out of people who grow up to be scumbags because they never got the shit beat out of them.

End income disparity.

Bring back public broadcasting on both a federal and state/city level.

Fund the aggressive development of walkable greenspace, boost public transit and put measures in place to keep it un-gentrified.

Set up a public fund for trans folks of all ages to get appropriate gender-affirming care (medical, clothing, etc) and cover legal fees.

Make sure no kid ever has to pay for a decent school meal ever again.

And once those and any other QoL ideas I get are done; game and bake like nobody’s business lol. And set up a full blown home lab, and pick up VR again.

funding open source projects and buying ip and freeing it.

Open source hardware. Like, fully working enterprise grade that also scales down to Chromebook-budget.

I feel like a lot of people are missing the “with your life” part of this. While I’m sure I’d love to magically fix the world’s problems, to answer the actual question:

I’ve always pictured a house built into the side of a cliff face that’s right next to a road. The rock pulls away to reveal the garage whenever I’m nearby. I’d have just a few rooms, nothing too crazy. I’ve always loved the idea of an underground house. I’d also have a decent-sized workshop/garage for the many projects I’m always working on.

I’d also try starting my own business for the first time and I’d be curious to see how my skillset applies. I can’t bring myself to do it in today’s current situation.

That and a Lamborghini. Because why the hell not? That’s what fantasy is for.

All this comes with the disclaimer that I don’t have any kids.

Create an energy efficient system for carbon capture from the atmosphere and the oceans. Something that can be used at the sites for heavy emitters and also generally around the world.

Create a system to collect the captured carbon and bring it to a central site.

Fire that carbon off into interstellar space.

Use the revenue generated from fees from heavy polluters who can't decarbonise effectively (things like steel making, glass works, air travel) to fund low carbon energy projects and storage/distribution systems for developing nations like in sub-saharan Africa and SE Asia.

End fascism

First things first, I'd spend the next five years quietly buying majority shares of major tech companies through proxies and then create a faux investment board that forces these companies to bend to my will.

during those five years I would be collecting as much evidence as possible against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and use it against them as leverage and make them my pawns.

final part of the plan is to apply pressure to world governments to comply or face economic collapse through pressuring licensing and legal redtape for operating businesses across the globe.

my goals are simple

1. free the people
2. heal the people
3. burn out corruption
4. abolish capitalism
5. free the market

it's far more complex than what I could even begin to describe here, but that's the gist of it.

Fuck it I deserve to treat myself to a few congresspeople and media companies

Oh, multiple assassinations.

I will fund biology/gene manipulation until I can become a dog. Woof.

I'd start a gay gym with pool, spa, sauna, bar etc. I'm talking about the kind of place where you will see obscenities.

EDIT: These threads always make me lose my faith with humanity as I read people share their violent and sadistic fantasies.

Beat the world record for most inflated currency. And femboy hooters

Run a dog sanctuary, just me and a big piece of land with tons of dogs. Animals are better than people, give unconditional love, and don't drain my batteries like other people do

If I must be selfish: Really really big telescopes/particle colliders and space exploration both sound very nice.

you have infinite dollars

Spend infinite dollars in a short time until the dollar is worthless.

Then, live a simple life somewhere in the Mediterranean.

I would do so those things we said we would do as children i.e feed people. But, also go after all these fools destroying our world.

Pursue a career in culinary, burn myself out in commercial kitchens, then become a home cook and cook for family and friends holding BBQ and potluck block parties every week.

I realize during covid that I wasnt feeling fulfilled with my office job, and did odd jobs in between. One of it was helping a mutual friend's small eatery as a cook. And felt fulfilled in he short 3 months I worked there before they were forced to shut down because of continuing lock down and a flood, than the up to that point 7 years of office work.

I don't have savings to just cut off not working, took too many debt and got scammed out of a simple fraud credit card spending scam call. And my mental health was spiraling down to suicide ideation. Silver lining at that office was that we were contracted with a hospital to set up a mental health triage system so I got help from there. Bad thing was 2 years ago that team just left the company wholesale and even advised me not to go anywhere. Now I feel trapped that the meager amounts of searching for other work, not knowing how to whore myself out to companies for better pay because idk what the fuck I've done to whore out, just to fight inflation as the world is going to hell in a hand basket.

I'm a gullible motherfucker 🥹

Increase the infrastructure and speed of public railways in the US. Trains needs to be atleast (1/3) as fast as airliners.

Design a Linux phone. So sick of google and android. Currently looking at Fairphone 6 in the US as postmarketOS just got initial support, still need cellular, WiFi, camera to be functional, but considering it just came out a few months ago, pretty impressive.

I would do so those things we said we would do as children i.e feed people. But, also go after all these fools destroying our world.

Draw all the things instead of worrying about shit. Make my city's public transport free, y'know, like the Waynes did. Lobby to ban cars from the inner city. Donate a bunch to whoever has the power to shrink the waiting list for autism assessment to a few weeks at most. Also donate a bunch to research on ME/CFS and lipoedema (volunteer as tribute). Donate to research in general.

Probably some FOSS projects. There's a few things bugging me and I have a custom DSL/programming language idea I've been dreaming about for the last ~2-3 years that's like if Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes and Nix had a baby together. It's 2025, how come is it that I can't just "one Lemmy instance at lemmy.max-p.me please" and get a worldwide multi-cloud multi-million user capacity instance in 10 minutes.

Next on my list would be a filesystem, because for some reason I find myself wanting something that's LVM, ZFS, Ceph and PostgreSQL all in one. It's 2025, how come I can't just be "here's all my drives, and the drives on my NAS, and the drives on my remote server, figure out some nice unified filesystem for all of this shit".

Large scale: create or take over companies and make them align with my values (good employment conditions & good products basically). Then delegate that work.
I would try to earn money so i dont have to care about my investor/s and ensure i dont crash the economy too much.
After taking enough economy control pressure politics and other firms to follow my values.

Low scale: currently i hyperfocus on custom keyboards (absolute noob btw) and thought about creating my own with sliders on the side and knobs and F keys that go beyond 12 and more fancy things