9 things you can do with $500,000,000

Joe Moore
2 min readMar 4, 2020

1. Buy seven Gulfstream G650ER Jets ($66.5m x 7 = $465.5m) and ruin a minor league baseball game by having them have them fly over for 8 consecutive innings. ($53,000 per tank x 7 = $371,000) (total, $465.9m)

2. Buy the Minnesota Wild NHL Franchise (valued at $450m) and change their names to the Minnesota Mild ($0, may actually generate money on ironic merch sales!) (total, $450m)

3. Buy 200,000 horses (x $15,000 = $300m) and treat them to a meal of two hundred $5 dollar bills each (200,000 horses x $1,000 = $200m) (total, $500m)

photo via: https://heelsdownmag.com/an-equestrian-guide-to-thrifting/

4. Buy 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools (x $500,000 = $250m) and fill them 330,000 “Halo The Bear” Beanie Babies (x $7500 list price = $247.5m) ($497.5m)

5. Buy 1 million 100 x 100 Burgers from In-N-Out ($90.85 x 1m =$90,850,000), ship them priority mail to the grand canyon ($311.60 shipping x 1m = $311,600,000) then hire one thousand six hundred park rangers to clean it all up (1600 x $60,220 park ranger salary = $96.4m) (total $498.9m)

6. Buy “The Cullinan Diamond” the largest diamond ever found at 3,106 carat ($400m) and bet a friend $100,000,000 to eat it (total if successfully eaten, $500m, if they can’t eat it, $300m!)

7. Buy everyone in Canada (39.75m population) 17 wooden Yo-yos x ($0.72 each x 17 = $12.24 per person) (total $486.5)

8. Buy 50 British Guiana Once Cent Magenta’s ($9.48m), the most expensive stamp in the world and give them away as prizes to some elementary schoolers. (total $474m)

9. Buy your way into a losing bid for the 2020 Democratic Primary Race (total $500m)

Note: Taxes have not been included because Billionaires don’t pay taxes.

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