£150 million, still work…?

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I’m having a debate at work and it’s a debate about what would you do if you won £150 million, his response amazed and filled me despair due to his lack of imagination.

He said if he won the jackpot he would still work as he might get bored and his wife would want to open a cake shop.
Why am I angry about his lack of imagination or his understanding at what that sort of money could give to him? He wants a job with all that cash? He couldnt see how working 9 hours a day in an office whilst having the means to not have to do that was, to me, fking stupid.

I tried to explain to him that boredom is a worry as his experience of life up to now is bound by time and financial constraints, if those were removed endless possibilities are there. Forgetting the usual property, car and travelling purchases so how about learning to fly, buy a helicopter, commission a boat and sail the world. Have a family? Well how about build a house, develop a foundation open a zoo.

I too am bound by the finance and time constriction and perhaps imagination but if I won £150 million I wouldn’t be bored and I’d get imaginative.

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longshot said:

OP. Are you sure he isn't just baiting you?
Surely no-one can be that unimaginative.
There is ofcourse the other option that he has just completely given up.

No, he was serious!

He sometimes does surprise me with a few of his ideas and thoughts.
For example in one recent discussion he tells me he wants to rig his house lights up to an AP on his iphone so he can turn his lights on and off remotely. I asked him how this would be more beneficial than to simply flick a switch on the wall. He said flicking the stairs switch on and off is difficult if you’re on the ground floor as there is no light switch as it’s covered up, this AP would solve this issue.

Sometimes my head hurts talking to him. He’s an engineer and earns $40k.

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How much would it be to go into SPACE!