First I would pay off my student loans and my credit card.

My credit card only has a $1300 limit, but it manages to get me in more trouble than I can count on one hand. And none of it is directly my fault, it's the extra fees that "automatically charge for your convenience" that bump me over the limit right after I feel good about having paid off a month's worth of bills.

I would pay for my own wedding.

With the remainder of the money I would start schools in third world countries and see that they were supplied with books, each in their own language. Some of the money would also go to scholarships and research grants at major universities of my choosing.

I think I would also donate to a charity or two, though I'm not sure which ones. And at a controlled rate so as not to destroy the economy.

Honestly, I can't envision that much money. I read a book once in which the main character ended up circumnavigating the world in 40 days (half the famous 80). He spent the first several days on the island of Krakatoa, which turned out to be inhabited by very happy, peaceful people. The island had a huge diamond mine which you had to wear shades inside of, it was so bright. It was as though the mountain were MADE of diamonds. The visitor asked "why aren't you all trillionares?" at which point that if they shipped a big boatful of diamonds to port, they would flood the market and the diamonds be worthless as broken glass.

Instead they took a handful of nicer ones when they sailed for supplies to...wherever they sailed to. Bartering for supplies with a few diamonds got them a loooong ways. After a short while visiting the island, it began to smoke and shake and they all escaped on a big wooden dance floor towed by hot air balloons. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the book, but the lesson has stuck with me.

Unload the proverbial ship a little at a time and keep people guessing how much you have, that is what I would do with the money, sending it to wherever I end up sending it.

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Hah! You won't have enough left over to pay the credit card... who you kidding?

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That would be The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pene du Bois.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I think too much money can often be counterproductive.
In most areas, we don't need more money, we just need to spend it more wisely...

The Gates Foundation mentioned in the OP is a good example:
its main contribution is not its money, but its focus on tangible results.

I would make Robert Heinlein's Long Range Foundation a reality! Sort of the opposite of The Gates Foundation.

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I suspect the governor of the reserve bank will want to have a word with you.
Secondly, I think in the end it will bring you more sorrow than good.
There is a story I heard from a friend (who knew a person, who was related...you get the idea) that big winners in casinos are allocated body guards, not in fear of them (the winners) being killed but from the "beggars".

Back to OP:
Firstly look after number one, me ()
Then all the goody fundgy stuff, you know malaria, polio, malnutrition, etc.

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Depends what you mean by We and Money. The OP specifies "wealth", not currency, which makes a big difference. Some of "we" do need more wealth, others of "we" just have it in the wrong places.

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That is alot of nannys, but I think I could afford it

You could hire New Zealand to baby sit.

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Better to just hire Russia to do your fighting, they could use the money and have a lot of out-of-work soldiers.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

That's the funny thing about out of work soldiers. They don't stay that way for very long.

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Gimme a minute to read through Jay's latest observations...

See? See? Airship!

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Hitler, Tojo, Napoleon, the Romans, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, already tried that. The communists, Mao, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, tried it "from inside". Doesn't work very well these days, unless you are willing to "make a desert & call it peace".. Cheney's trained monkey, Dubya, tried it with no better luck. The Allah-boys will try it, opposed by the YHWH-boys.

is this too much politics for this forum? Am I politically incorrect here?

Birth control for the whole world, permanent sterilisation of man & woman after ONE child for every couple for the next five or ten generations, coupled with permanent sterilisation of all childless people as a 21st birthday "gift".. The Chinese to supervise it under German/Japanese/American/Russian/Indian expertise & direction. The Chinese have their own expertise in this & would not worry about being accused of "slow genocide" or anything else for that matter.
Might need Korjik's army to help them though. Korjik -- would you let the North Koreans train your army?

I will BEAT you...

I don't know why. With sixty-five trillion dollars you could minimize the impact of even 10 billion people on the environment. Of course, if you just don't like people I suppose it would make sense.

You could pay people to sterilize themselves, but to force it on people would mean war, and even with 65 trillion in the war chest, as usual it would probably one that no one wins.

What is your source for suggesting Francis Drake did this? I've not heard it before.

btw the population of England was 4.8 million in 1570 according to Wikipedia, someone said it was only 3m.

By "real wealth", I presume you mean items you could exchange with foreigners for things of real values. If it was just money, it would be just like the local bank printing it, and would cause hyper-inflation. So it could be like hitting oil. But even if it isn't just money, if you bring a large quantity of wealth into a country, I think it has to cause some inflation. The quantity of locally produced goods and services remains the same, and as you add in the large quantity of externally produced goods (which is what you exchange the wealth for) it is bound to increase the relative value for locally produced goods to imports. The consequence is what economists call "Dutch disease", ie, unemployment as locally produced exports become too expensive. Hence there are generally high prices in oil economies, (excluding those where the value of the oil is stolen by a small elite and placed in Swiss bank accounts.)

I suggest this should be moved to Off-Topic Babbling.

Doesn't matter if its currency or wealth.
At the quantities discussed here, the first would just ruin the economy even faster.

Finally someone who started to think it through