• Jo Miran
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    392 months ago

    This basically the premise to Richard Pryor’s movie “Brewster’s Millions” except that one of the rules was that you cannot buy or own anything. At the end of the month you must have spent the money and have nothing to show for it.

    The answer is politics. Spend it all on a political campaign.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      That is inherently a gift then, donation? No different that giving it away and morally lesser to giving to the poor. Breaks one of the rules.

    • Aatube
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      22 months ago

      The political campaign is actually the innovation of the film, which was an adaptation.

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      And then he realized that winning would break the rules, as the salary makes the position considered an asset, so he campaigned for “none of the above”. At the end of the movie, that option wins.