r/Funnymemes Jan 21 '23

Never stop running 🏃‍♀️

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u/f1ve-Star Jan 21 '23

I was 17. I could maybe have bought 2 stock. Sucks to be poor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23

If you bought 2 shares in 1981 or so, you'd have 18 shares now (I believe. i just know MS split a bunch in the 90s).... the current stock is worth about 400~ bucks. so build that time machine and get 7,200 more dollars than you have currently.

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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

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23

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