I should* buy some powerball tickets.

I should* buy some powerball tickets.

I figure two bucks for a one in a billion or so chance of winning a billion or so dollars is a good deal, right?

Having emotional permission to anticipate what life would be like. See, I'd take the annuity, so that's ... what, 20 million a year or more, and it goes up as time goes on? So, I get the chance to think about what life'd be like with a check for 20 million bucks.

I figure we'd do a lot of travelling. See places of the world we've not hit yet. Do some politicking, most likely. Then open a board game cafe / coffee shop / pastry shop. Hire a barrista, a bartender for the late night crowd, and most def a games curator. Make sure we keep interesting games.

Then I'd just play some games that take little more than index cards. Maybe then I could get advance copies of the games I want, too.

Taxes would take some of it, sure. But even half of 20 million is still ten million. I figure we could live on that for a year, pretty damn easily.

And, of course, we'd put at least a million into government bonds or something similar. Emergency back up, never touch it money.

I guess the biggest change is we'd quit our jobs. No need to sweat for companies. That's a great way to opt out of being the working class.

And for most people, that's probably a much bigger deal. We both mostly like our jobs. We're paid well and our jobs aren't too stressful. They aren't likely to disappear, have benefits, and both probably make the world a better place. At least marginally. We've been lucky enough to have our option.

And that's a privilege way to many people do not have. With worker pay flat, stock dividends high, and the estate tax essentially gone, America is headed towards an aristocracy. Which is ultimately good for no one.

So, I guess I should( buy some power ball tickets!

*read as "should not"