Buy the USA and sell it for scrap, like a venture capitalist.
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Easy. Artificial gravity orbital space station.
Create smattering of small communities around the world that are sustainable, independent and contain all the scientific knowledge and capabilities to rebuild civilization.
Setup an organization with the sole purpose of fighting censorship. Plus I'd want to setup artistic grants and music festivals.
I live in an area where 50 years ago the population was bordeline autonomous.
The main activities were centered around sheep, wine, a little on open grazing cattle, some cereal production and orchards.
With no money issues, I would start by buying all abandoned and empty buildings and launch a massive rebuilding and renewing campaign. This town has several centuries of history and preserving and returning people to it would be my top priority.
In tandem, I would force a massive reforestation program in the surrounding area. It is technically a national park but it is almost barren.
Paired with this, techonlogy and infrastructure would need to be developed and implemented. A small datacenter would be created deep underneath the city, cooled with waste waters. For this, a completely new and top of the line waste water management plant would be built and every available human built surface would be covered in solar panels.
Reflorestation efforts would be paired with development of forest fire detection, prevention and extinction technology.
City renovation would be planned around low density population areas, with building topping at six individual dwellings, with built in commercial areas for small local shops. Parking would be concentrated on the outskirts of the town, in purpose built buildings, leaving the core areas for walking and human powered means of transportation.
In terms of job creation, I'd start cooperatives for wine, fruit, cereals, produce and cattle, to stimulate small and medium producers to settle and develop their activities and relaunch the wool and cloth industry of the city, using the wool from locally raised sheep. As a by-product, a specialized lanolin extraction shop would be created. I'd leave traditional cheese making for small producers (the local cheese can go for crazy high prices but not for the people that have the work making it) but support creating a guild to negotiate prices.
Orchards would have support from a locally established industry to transform the lower grade fruit into jams, juices and other related products. Always coops.
There would be more to plan and but at some point I would be too busy going to court daily being accused to trampling every other interest, so I would have to have an army of people supporting my megalomaniac plan.
Surely time travel will be possible with infinite money.