Posted on 10/22/2018 10:32:35 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Buy 800,000,000 Powerball tickets!
Mark
Or, a sure investment is always canned goods and shotgun shells! :-)
Mark
Yeah, that’s the scary part. I’m not sure anyone really understands the media storm they’ll be walking into if they win. The smart folks get a plan and advisory team together, decline the press conference with the big check and get a head start on disappearing after collecting the prize. The nitwits believe they can resume their normal lives when the initial hubbub dies down, and can’t believe people are still accosting them years later and demanding a handout.
You'd have to hire an attorney just to deal with the bogus paternity claims that would come in by the hundreds, not to mention the blatant shakedowns. "I'm going to tell everyone you're a child molester."Probably hundreds of those as well.
In the era of #MeToo and Christine Blasey-Ford, winner better hope he as a squeaky-clean past. "Remember that party in the 12th grade when you got really drunk? I do!"
I think most people's natural instinct is to cash in the ticket before something can happen to it; the dog eats it, the neighbor steals it. "Just get the money in the bank and we'll deal with the rest as it happens."
This amount of money is going to completely upend someone's life, unless Taylor Swift wins it. She could probably handle it.
For later reading
That is because Taylor's success for herself is earned.
Uh huh! Truly.
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