What nonobvious things would you do if you were Bill Gates rich?
 

Ok, so everyone would buy expensive stuff- guitars, TVs, houses, yachts, etc. Bla bla bla. hookers. That all bores me. And giving to charities bores me too. Making runs for political power are lame too. Those are all obvious things you'd do in the hypothetical situation of being so rich that you shit gold.

I'd have new drafts for Star Wars Episode I, II, and III written and have competent people produce, direct, and act in them.

I'd make a cable TV Channel that aired the following shows (among other awesome canceled television shows):
pre-Ferrel and co. SNL
Kids in the Hall
SCTV
Dr. Katz
The Ben Stiller Show
Pete and Pete
Father Ted
Monty Python

I'd get the Year Punk Broke released on DVD by buying out Courtney Love.

And I'd start my own maglev company connecting major US cities, as well as their suburban infrastructure. Just because I can't stand the US infrastructure anymore.

id buy all the cds ive copied or downloaded.

have someone killed and make it look like an accident.

Set up a museum.

Pay someone to spend as long as it took compiling a definitive history and catalogue of UK commemorative medals. The publication would be augmented by quarterly appendices where any new information or discoveries were documented.

Ditto, for UK trade tokens.

I'd buy out both of the UK's major bus companies, Arriva and First Group, and I'd run all of the UK's buses as non profit-making concerns along former local corporation lines. Each 'corporation' group would effectively be run by former employees from the area.

Start a label, put only respectable bands on it - something like Dischord. Have a studio built with many rooms, with an analogue room and a digital room, something like Electrical Audio. Give billions to animal rights organisations etc each year. Buy a vinyard and start an organic wine. Buy a cafe and have it how I want. Start up an art gallery.

i would do nothing, absolutely nothing...

I'd build a real version of 'Twin Peaks'.
I'd pay the original cast to cancel their current lives and adopt their onscreen characters forever. I'd then go and live there, eating cherry pie, drinking black coffee, and riding around on a Harley...

I would explain to the crowd gathered in Times Square that I firmly believe in capitalism but that free enterprise and representative government is in dire jeopardy here in America. I would then proceed to burn a million dollars, and subsequently surrender myself to authorities. I would exploit the resulting media curiousity through agents on my behalf getting more detailed truth out to the people.