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Originally Posted by kato13
Simply giving the money would cause hyper inflation.
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Any government that wants to could toss a little of that "hyper inflation" in my direction.
Actually I think we are all touching upon something fairly basic - I read articles about lottery winners who say "it's not going to change my life" and I want to scream "so why did you buy the ticket?", and people say "oh, if I won a £1M i'd be able to quit my job...." But frankly most of us would need a lot less than £1M to change our lives in a big way - I've thought about this and I figure something in the region of £100K could be life changing for me.
Assuming I wanted to quit my day job (which has the odd fun moment but is essentially not very fulfilling) £100K would take care of the mortgage and all the little debts that build up as you go through life. Actually make it a £150K and my wife could come too! And then I'd still need to work but I could possibly do something I want to do rather than something that keeps a roof over my head - perhaps working for a charity, I used to enjoy doing wine tastings for WaterAid ("turning wine into water" was the catchphrase we used on our advertising for them) and perhaps something for them would be fun.
But as I say - if you have the will then the amount of money to change someone's life neednt be big bucks assuming your definition of life changing is not sitting around a pool for the rest of your life, which I think would bore me to tears in short order.