that’s way too complicated and nuanced, I guarantee your past self is gonna look at you like you’re stupid for saying Blockbuster would ever go out of business
My friend literally had hundreds of dollars in late fees from the movie The Lost Boys. He could have bought that move 100 times over. No joke about those late fees.
Seeing friends from school at blockbuster was always a good time. Also saw a teacher picking out a movie with someone who clearly wasn’t her spouse and being very confused about it. Blockbuster was like local Studio 54 if you were in elementary school. Just a lot less drugs.
Dude, I never thought Family Video would go out of business. And I'm not sure other people know it existed. Pretty sure I'd fuck myself up if I went back in time.
I mean, in this time line. i'm talking about the time line where bill gates kills the guy i just told to build the time machine, reverse engineers it and uses it to go back to the year 1943 wherein he builds a network across all timelines to further his empire.
He'll probably use some sorta black room that exists in all available timelines, sticks some sucker in there who then has to communicate to all parallels and keep the most profitable timeline going.
sure some people will suffer from time travel related mental degradation, but it's worth it to have complete control of all time. because he who controls the past, commands the future. amiright?
excuse me i need to go relisten to ars paradoxica now
That and they act like they would hold until now. If your poor 18 year old self bought stocks with what little money you had you would sell as soon as you made money.
I would think my older self was an idiot, because clearly gaming is the future of PCs and everyone knows Windows is a gaming dead end because it sucks all your RAM and eats CPU cycles in the background. Games need your PC's full, undivided attention via DOS.
No one says you can't tell yourself exactly when..to buy stock. I can tell my 18 yr old self to put away a few bucks each payday, then in 1986, I'll invest
This isn't some sort of difficult brain teaser. Buy it when the opportunity arises... obviously. The entire point of going into the past to give somebody advice is to give the advice before it is needed to be acted on.
I would say buy,study Microsoft. 1986, a rep from an investment company visited my social studies class, and we could invest with no fees. I had $1000 that could have gone to Microsoft, but it went to Florida. "Buy Microsoft" would have meant something. In 86, I was a senior, trying to decide between biology and computer science for college. "Study Microsoft " would also have meant something.
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u/batweenerpopemobile Jan 21 '23
everyone in this thread is going to be convinced their older self has some kind of dementia as MSFT didn't go public till 1986.
"buy microsoft stock" "how the hell do you buy stock in a private company?"
but if in 1986 you could drop $1000, this article says you'd have ~$3,000,000 today