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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This basically the premise to Richard Pryor's movie "Brewster's Millions" except that one of the rules was that you cannot buy or own anything. At the end of the month you must have spent the money and have nothing to show for it.

The answer is politics. Spend it all on a political campaign.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

I loved the bit where he spent a small pile of that money on an Inverted Jenny postage stamp then used it to send a postcard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That is inherently a gift then, donation? No different that giving it away and morally lesser to giving to the poor. Breaks one of the rules.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Oh no. The no gifting rule is also in effect. It was his own political campaign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Unless it is a superpac.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Lucky it was set in America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The political campaign is actually the innovation of the film, which was an adaptation.

endingAnd then he realized that winning would break the rules, as the salary makes the position considered an asset, so he campaigned for "none of the above". At the end of the movie, that option wins.