The 'Extras'

To continue the discussion from below, there were a lot of options on that shopping spree link for "feel good" things like building homeless shelters or feeding and clothing the poor for a year and things like that. I'm all for charity. Sometimes circumstances result in people with needs they can't meet for themselves for a period of time. But I think it's a mistake to take somebody to raise. People must be able to provide their own basics. If you provide those for them all the time, they will never be independent.

If I were Powerball rich, I'd be more inclined to be charitable in ways that gave people those extras that are hard to afford even if you are covering the basics. Things like music lessons, trips abroad, or plays and concerts and exhibitions that are either too costly or too far away to see for a lot of people. Not everyone lives in the big city, and those life-enhancing and mind-expanding things can be hard to come by sometimes if you don't have surplus funds.

Utopia for me would be a world in which everyone's neighborhood was bursting with culture and art, and access to it was free to all. It's hard to be stressed when you are painting or writing or dancing, and hard to argue with your neighbor when you are listening to or playing music together.