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[–] 8 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Rebuild all the schools in my local district? Set up a permanent endowment for the Freedom from Religion Foundation? Turn as much land into nature preserves as I can possibly afford?

Maybe these aren’t “things” you “buy” but it doesn’t take much creativity to blow a billion. I think I just blew a whole bunch of them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    You'd never make it to a billion with that kind of attitude

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  • At my last count there were about 30 schools in my county. That puts them at less than 34 million each. A quick google search places the cost of building a new middle school at between 30 and 125 million dollars. So...yeah. Rebuilding a school district would be a straightforward way to spend a billion dollars.

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