by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The thing about winning the lottery from what I’ve read is it kind of sucks. Yes, you suddenly have a huge amount of money, but…suddenly you have a huge amount of money. Everyone wants a piece of it. You have to hire, like, three lawyers and, in general, you’re, at least initially, kind of miserable.
And, I think about this in the context of how much I hate the concept of a lottery to begin with. It’s a harsh, severe regressive tax and I only play it when I’m either really desperate, or it’s really big, or both.
Well, I played it recently because of the “both” situation.
I’m really desperate AND it’s at $1.3 billion.
I’m under no illusions that I will actually win, but it is nice to have a tiny little bit of hope, regardless.
But, having said all that, I do find myself wondering what I would do with, let’s say, about $700 million after taxes. I think I would buy at least one newspaper just to be it’s owner, not publisher. I also might invest in my “Gawker” social media platform idea, even though that’s kind of quaint now in the era of AI.
Or maybe I’ll invest directly in AI.
Anyway, wish me luck?
