The World’s First Billion Dollar Home Sucks! How Would You Spend It?

Just saw THIS pathetically un-embeddable video coverage of the world’s first billion dollar home—which is actually gonna cost $2 billion—and I felt pretty sick to my stomach. Sure, it’s just a small fraction of the guy, Mukesh Ambani’s, India’s richest person, $43 billion net worth and he has every right to what he wants with his hard earned money, but I couldn’t help but wonder how $2 billion might be better spent.

For instance, for just about the same price Mukesh coulda woulda shouldla bought Wendy’s, whose 6,000+ stores bring in just over $500 mil in revenue each year. Or maybe take on a new industry by buying hot hot hot company Nanosolar. Then again, I guess a badass house is better than just throwing $2 billion away as Merrill Lynch chose to do

Me: luxury goods and I don’t see to get along too well—I always lose or break them all—so I’d probly spend the money expand on my Tulane scholarship, building a worldwide financial education program…start young and go grassroots, aiming to replace the near-useless-in-life priority-flawed Little League program (which would not only be fun to try to do, but infinitely more fulfilling than any thing / piece of property will ever be).

Let’s hear from you, how would you spend $2 billion?

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