One Million Dollars / First 24 Hours

Who doesn't love a big stack of cash?

What you would do with One Million Dollars (after tax) if you were handed it today and more specifically what would you do in the first 24 hours?

Thanks to @ablaze for nominating me, and let's give that man a round of applause for his own million dollar post !!!!

It's funny how this piece of paper owns us, to our very core.It makes us become obsessed, and possessed.
I do believe that money withhold a power, almost mystical , almost inexplicable, it turns the devout into devil, the mad into sinner, the brave into coward, and the ignorant into arrogant.

That's maybe what I tell to myself at night, to help me sleep, to help me get through next week.

We all have an internal mechanism , a fragile equilibrium that can be upset at any moment.Why this man is born with plenty while this child starves to death?
What is plenty?Plenty of what?

Would yourself consider rich of something if you own a million shoes, or would you be considered by everyone as weirdo collecting a million of "something".

That being said, there are people that own millions out there, and doing good with it , fueling amazing projects, amazing ideas, amazing people.So a million can be the difference between living and surviving, depending on who is holding that power.

I think I haven't been that driven by money for a long time.
Steemit changed me for that matter.I watch markets rising and falling every day, I even want to set an alarm when the SBD goes down, I know exactly how much money I make per week. You don't make me do something unless you pay me these days :)

Steemit made me reach the potential that I never thought was even possible: Becoming a Brand

The first thing I would do with a million dollars , would be to deposit this money into a South African bank account and watch it become 14 millions Rands, that would make me feel much better about the whole experience :P

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It would already take more than 24 hours to deposit a millions euros on a bank account, but let's just say that the money is already on my account, the first thing that I would do with that money is buy winter clothes for the kids.

I am a very pragmatic guy, and that's all we can think of at the moment, the highveld winter can become a bitch and get you sick constently , so my priority right now is to buy clothes for my kids. I don't really care about anything else.What a simple man I am :)

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Once the kids are warm the second thing i do with my money is to buy a first class Paris-Johannesburg plane ticket for my mother, so she can come visit my children and meet them for the first time.

She hasn't met them yet, our son will turn 5 this year, and our daughter will turn 3 , so it's really the priority for me to get her to come here in South Africa.

She is a cancer survivor, she actually had 2 cancers, it obviously took a toll on her health, and I know that having her around, first she would be so delighted to be with the kids and would help her raise her morale, secondly I could organize the best THC and CBD oil that you can find on the market, and make sure she never develop another nasty tumor.

I feel very powerless from here, as my family in France are not educated on that matter and don't really know the proven results of cannabis oil for cancer patients. It's a battle I won't even bother to get involved into , because no one will listen to me oversea, and it's totally prohibited in France, so it's out of the question anyway.

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Which comes to what would i do with that money for the long term?
I would develop a "Venus Project" in South Africa, focused on hemp production and cannabis oil, trying to get local farmers involved before big pharma take over, once the legislation get changed.
The "Venus Project" was an idea, an utopia created by Jacques Fresco, a vision that probably sounds like science fiction, but if applied on a smaller scale, is very much thinkable.A resource-based economy:

While maybe beautiful on paper, I don't think that Jacques' newest form of Marxism would function in a money driven world, because any enterprise that doesn't generate a substantial amount of money and reward the most pro- active members of its community is bound to fail.
Instead of a futuristic society like the one suggested in the video, I would instead focus on perma-culture and try to find better ways to blend in architecture and nature together, building a healthy foundation for the generation to come.
14 millions Rands will give me a good head start for building a prototype-town, and corrupting the right governments officials that are not interested in a project that will collapse the very fabric of their society.

I realized that AI might play a more important role in shaping our society, governing our lives, as we have proven ourselves incapable of taking care of one another and making the sensible decisions for the greater good of our specie. I am not a big defender of Trans-humanism, as what is flesh should stay flesh, but maybe letting the machines take care of politics, would become the norm and will not sound far-fetched in 30 years time, but data and soul can be corrupted the same way.

Thanks for reading, it was a great exercise of visualization, and helped me as well realize that money doesn't matter, it's really about the people that your share it with,

I nominate @lionmom , @dandays, @puravidaville , @ofilsdutemps, , and @dougkarr for the million dollars challenge!!!