What would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars?

The long-running series invites readers to answer others’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts.

Roland Freeman, West Yorkshire, proposes acquiring an old warehouse in every town and converting it into low-rent community workspaces for artists, local charities and small businesses getting off the ground — a kind of people’s WeWork.

What would others do with a humungous, but not unlimited, pile of dosh to benefit society? Read this week’s readers’ reply. Post your answers (and new questions) below. A selection will be published next Sunday.

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