The house
alimony and child support
6 million cash
10 percent of his stock in Tesla
5 percent of his stock in SpaceX
(and he retains all voting rights)
and a Tesla Roadster (I really, really want one...)
Is that what I deserve? I don't know. Who exactly deserves that kind of wealth? But based on our life and history together, is that reasonable? I think so. And I want to do good things with it (and bring my parents down from Canada so that they can live near their grandchildren).
People ask me why he won't settle. I can't answer that (or rather, I could try, but I won't).
At any rate, I shall now turn my attention to other things.
* albeit with cash/liquidity issues, which I would work with him to work around
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What would you do with the stock your asking for?
It's a fair question. I would like to bring down my parents and support them. I would like to save and invest. I would like to play a significant role in the causes that are becoming increasingly important to me (for example, I'd like to donate enough money to build 5 schools for girls in Cambodia and name each one after one of my sons, and then take them, when they're older, to see that, and the effects of that, first-hand.) I would like to take my kids around the world (5 kids, so travel is tough to contemplate) because I think that kind of global awareness is important, especially when they're growing up with the kind of advantages they have. And I would like to build something online -- something involving fiction, technology, & cause-marketing or cause integration -- something that explores the cutting edge of storytelling and the still-forming new landscape of publishing...I'd like to build up a brand powerful enough to discover and promote other creatives under that brand -- basically the digital equivalent of a publishing imprint (but would extend to other forms of media as well) -- I've been extremely influenced by the concept of "socially relevant storytelling", the philosophy behind a film production company called Participant.
I'm still figuring it out.
I'll do these things regardless (or try to). I would just prefer to be able to do them without being forced to sell my house (although I plan to sell it anyway).
I certainly don't need to live any better than I already do. I've already had the extravagent private-jet lifestyle, or at least enough of it to know that (besides the impact that kind of consumerism has on the environment) I need real substance in my life -- the kind found through meaningful work and high-quality relationships -- which doesn't leave you any *time* to be extravagent (except for once in a while). I'd rather write good, compelling fiction about extravagent people.
Edited at 2010-05-10 09:31 pm (UTC)
Not that I liked the production...but I did love the idea.
"Around the world in 80 trades" Ch4 brit tv
My best wishes to all concerned, and most of all to your children.
WORK
When was the last time you held a freaking job?