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Laura PourMeADrink

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10. Guess it's easier to become uber rich w/ new technology ideas

Reply to LakeArenal (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 13, 2020, 01:38 PM

Feb 2020

Read once to retire in comfort, with a vacation home and ability to travel a lot, you needed $5-8 million saved up. If you want that kind of life that is) Of course Bloomberg's wealth is not all liquid. Hard to imagine though not turning much of that into doing something good for society. Celebrities too. Does Beyonce need so many mansions?

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If you had a net worth of $61.8 billion with a b [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2020 OP

well if I had 60B and spent 50B to defeat trump calguy Feb 2020 #1

I'd spend whatever it took wryter2000 Feb 2020 #2

Lol Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2020 #7

He has his own cable news network doesn't he? (nt) Recursion Feb 2020 #3

Yes. Funny, years ago, working in bank and my Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2020 #11

i'd spend $60 billion beating both Trump and the GOP Fresh_Start Feb 2020 #4

It's obscene anyone to have that much money n/t shanti Feb 2020 #5

I kinda agree with you. LakeArenal Feb 2020 #6

Guess it's easier to become uber rich w/ new technology ideas Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2020 #10

Beyonce is worth a mere 400 million. progressoid Feb 2020 #12

That's true. Still think they could take millions and do Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2020 #13

Yes, it is gratuitous Feb 2020 #8

Defeating Trump has to be our priority pandr32 Feb 2020 #9

Buy FOX News and stop the destruction of this country. TheBlackAdder Feb 2020 #14

Buy Fox News. Buy Trump's debt and call it in. Sink a billion into winnable Senate races. sarcasmo Feb 2020 #15

Best idea yet. And publish the paper so we can see Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2020 #17

$61.8 billion "net worth" ≠ $68.1 billion ready to spend Progressive Law Feb 2020 #16