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We recently had an office pool of forty people, forty numbers for the texas lotto which was up to 145 million. I figured that lump sum =70 mil; Uncle Sam gets 35 mil, leaving everyone with a little less than 1 million. Not enough to buy planes and islands, but enough to pay off our house and our parents' houses, kill my school loans, and I'd still work, but with a fairly hefty cushion.
50 million is entirely different. My dream would be to buy an island, invite all my friends and family, recruit some people, and start my own country. I could try to get a seat at the UN, and enter myself in the olympics. Probably diving -Cannonball!
Really, I'd contact a really high powered attorney with lots of malpractice insurance. Give him the ticket, and tell him to set up a fancy trust to take care of me and avoid as much tax as possible while sheilding me from liability, so that I wouldn't have to deal with the money, and it would be his ass if he lost it. Then pay off everything of mine and my family. Then travel and write for a year, then go back to being a lawyer, but this time helping the little guy that can't afford legal help, but not taking a huge cut.
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