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Cure cancer Cure HIV Eliminate hunger Eliminate thirst Take over Equatorial Guinea

• gambling8nt 18y ago
  The only one of these you could afford for $700b is Equatorial Guinea... :P
  • rms 18y ago
    1B is enough to take over Equatorial Guinea... the failed 2004 coup attempt was financed with a pathetic 20M. This says that the military budget of EG is 150M/year (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm) and I suspect that is a very high estimate. It would be easy to invest in modern pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in African nations with generous IP laws and then start making modern HIV medications available for practically nothing. Curing cancer is more of a crapshoot, but throwing several hundred billion at the problem would be a good start, if nothing else. Proper distribution of the money remaining could go a long way towards eliminating extreme poverty.