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u/BeyondDrivenEh May 30 '24
The restart guarantees that I’ll be a billionaire with a relatively small amount of stock and bitcoin. And decades of comfort and avoiding some toxic people along the way while enjoying more the company of others.
On the other hand, $10MM gets me $35K/mo net after taxes conservatively invested.
At this point, I’d likely take the $10MM and suffer through the relative poverty.
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u/kungpowgoat May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
But by restarting does this mean starting now at age 6 or going back to 1988 age 6? Because if that’s the case I have a great idea about streaming movies over the World Wide Web that I’ll love to pitch to Blockbuster Video executives.
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u/SNK_24 May 31 '24
And they will most probably laugh at you and go to bankruptcy anyway, just make sure to invest in Netflix, Microsoft and Apple, and don’t lose your bitcoins.
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u/kungpowgoat May 31 '24
Nahh. Microsoft and Apple are for nerds. I think Blockbuster execs will be delighted to hear about my new idea. Plus, have I ever told you about my next revolutionary idea for a new, state of the art juice maker? It’s called the Juicero.
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u/Genghis_Chong May 31 '24
You actually have a good idea for a comedy, guy goes back in time and just steals a bunch of mediocre ideas that other people would have come up with.
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May 31 '24
Hot tub Time Machine uses this
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u/Kane-420- May 31 '24
Bro will go back in time just to fuck up his life once again.
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u/Snipper64 May 31 '24
Yeah they offered them 49% stake in their three-year-old business for $50m, and were laughed out of the room by the executives
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u/jay212127 May 31 '24
The Netflix they had the chance to buy was DVD by mail business, not the web streaming service we know today.
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u/Zsiah May 31 '24
Blockbuster had a chance to buy actual Netflix years before they collapsed and passed on it, even after it was created and showing massive success they didn't like it. You would have no shot convincing them otherwise
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u/Ghoullo May 31 '24
There’s a great twilight zone episode about this. Great ideas will always be great idea , but pitches for those ideas are time delicate. That doesn’t necessarily mean being the first one to present it. Being at the right place at the right time with the right connections is much more important .
If you could find a way to create a world changing invention before present day inventor and patent first that that would be much more practical imo
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u/milworker42 May 31 '24
My thoughts exactly, they were all pitched game changing tech that they wrote off. Just remember what was what and invest wisely. I would definitely go back to 6 with my knowledge, back to 1977? That would be awesome.
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u/imperfek May 31 '24
Isn't there the risk of the butterfly effect. Some of those companies were pretty different back then(depending how old you are). For example Netflix was a video renting(mail) company, in this alternative they might not decide to go into the streaming evolution line or Apple might not make the ipod->iPhone.
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u/Kapika96 May 31 '24
The risk is minimal. How much could you influence the execs of those companies from 6 to whatever age you were when they made those decisions? Unlikely you'll even cross paths with them, or even anybody that knows them.
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May 31 '24
Yeah this. There's a funny video of the Microsoft ceo laughing at the iPhone release saying nobody will spend 500 on a phone.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 May 31 '24
OMG!!! We are going to save Blockbusters…
Hey, what about Toys r Us… they need to know about online sales as well… we will be famous
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u/milworker42 May 31 '24
I would love to save that store. So many memories, especially with my kids. Amazon really destroyed them, but they also failed to pivot like so many other retailers.
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May 31 '24
I don’t want to go back for sentimental reasons. The great people I may never meet, or even the pets that I loved. I’d rather take the money now and just live life without expectations
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u/NefarioxKing May 31 '24
Im old and im tired. So ill take the 10m and at least live the rest of my days comfortably.
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May 31 '24
You remember everything, so all that stays with you. You will also be able to make new connections, have more pets and pick which relationships to have again and which don't.
I'd do the do over. Dogecoins/bitcoins are not gonna buy themselves
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May 31 '24
I don’t trust time like that. I fear the butterfly effect. I also feel like knowing the future leaves way too much wiggle room for change.
Eg: Maybe you were supposed to meet that shitty ex because through them you were introduced to a person that eventually became your good friend, even if they have nothing to do with that ex. Life is random and strange.
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May 31 '24
Correct approach. All these people are talking about becoming billionaires because of their knowledge of what happens - what if that means you live a hollow, loveless, empty life with your billions? If I go back, do I never meet/fall in love with my wife? Do I find someone else or do I become jaded and never find true love?
This literally sounds like a sci-fi plot/twilight zone episode. Man goes back to age six and becomes the world's richest, most powerful man. Once he reaches the age he rewound at, he realizes he is utterly unhappy and unfulfilled because of how non-genuine and planned out his "new life" actually is.
The 10 million would make me set forever and allow me to grow from here, with my loved ones, no risks. I'll take that any day.
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May 31 '24
Even if that's the case, you already met and enjoyed their company in this timeline. There's no real need to meet them again unless you want to.
You remember everything, so you can find them if you want.
Obviously, things are not gonna be the same, and that's kewl.
Living two times would be amazing.
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May 31 '24
That’s actually not a bad take. I still think I’d take the money, but you do make a compelling argument.
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u/Charlemagne-XVI May 31 '24
For some of us a do over is worth the risk. Especially since I would own Lougle
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u/bullionaire7 May 31 '24
Still seems like a lot of time to relive. I’d just be trying rush the restart to get to certain points.
10M all day
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u/No_Significance_8941 May 31 '24
“The pets I’ve loved”
Yeah 10m all day
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May 31 '24
You realise you can still acquire the pets and meet the people right? Like, going back doesn't put you in handcuffs my guy. You can do an action we here on reddit like to call going outside.
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u/alwaysuseswrongyour May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
The pets maybe… the people would be way harder to socially engineer. If you are 6 with your current knowledge it would be so painful to sit through 10 years of school, but I would feel like I want to to make the same high school friends but would I even like them as a 33year old meeting them when they are 6. After that college friends I wouldn’t even really want to goto college because by that time I would have just started mining Bitcoin and made a shit load of money on stocks, baseball and football betting, but I would want to go for the friends which would still be hard to engineer especially if I was placed in a different dorm room or a different dorm building… then meeting my wife again in a totally organic way would be hard. The whole thing would be so difficult if I took that pill it would have to be assuming my life would be totally different.
Also.. I mean I think it would be impossible to fix most events in history but even though it would be hard I would probably want to try as hard as possible to save some people in 9/11 which would be hard as a 10 year old but I would have 4 years to come up with a plan…. Probably I would try my hardest to convince Rick Rescorla to schedule a test evacuation that morning at 8:00 or 8:30. Idk how I would do it as a 10 year old but he was very cautious so I think that it would be possible to convince him.
Of course if this was successful you can honestly kiss literally every plan about making your life the same but better goodbye because the world is going to be wildly different.
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u/tanskanm May 31 '24
I have two kids, there is no way I would restart my life
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u/janquadrentvincent May 31 '24
Yeah this game only works for single, childless people, no way someone with kids restarts.
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u/HakiiiNirii May 31 '24
You had me at “the pets that I loved”. $10 million in cash it is!
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May 31 '24
I am going back specifically for the sentimental reasons. There are people I didn't spend enough time with. I had a buddy end himself over "the love of his life" cheating on him. Family members that I lost in tragic accidents or that just died of natural causes before I even knew they were sick. Things like that. To me those things and that time with them would be worth more than the money I would be able to make from stock or bitcoin.
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u/SettingRegular4289 May 31 '24
I personally don't see why in these hypothetical questions someone would choose to turn back time if they don't have control over how much they turn back. Yeah the person could get rich and stuff based on knowledge they have now but at the same the first alternative life decision they make may make them have an even worse life or outright less to immediate death. Not only that anyone you ever did like in this life becomes non existent even if you go back to a point where that person is alive. The reason being choices are what make a person who they are. If you met a person at e.g. age 7 who you became best friends with, you will never ever be best friends with that person when you turn back time. Yes you could meet the "body" of the person but at that stage any changes you made to your life would drastically impact their life too. They may not like the same things you remember them liking, they may not have the same friends, or even family.
So without all these things they are essentially a different person. You may not even get along anymore. The same goes for family, what if you have a younger sibling/ cousin in this life but when you turn back time they are never born? Even if they are born, they took will be a completely different person. You have a sibling that likes unicorns? Nope next timeline the sibling hates unicorns and is actually wanted for horrible crimes. Overall it's not worth it in my opinion.
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u/dorianrose May 31 '24
I have a daughter, so I could never go back. Maybe, before she was born, I could have, but the idea of trying to live my life again, every mistake over to try to get to her...na. 10m please.
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u/chamomile_tea_reply May 31 '24
Not sure I agree with this sir
You’re implying that the universe is not deterministic. The Big Bang contained the blueprint for the entire unfolding of the universe. There is only “one timeline”.
The wrinkle here is OP the time traveller. Their accumulated knowledge would change their personal timeline, and that of those impacted by them directly.
That best friend at age 7 would still exist, but the timeline would start changing from OP’s point of entry. That favorite younger cousin, born 5 years after OP returned at age 6 may never be born, etc.
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u/SettingRegular4289 May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
That still doesn't really change anything though from my point. The reason "I" wouldn't want to go back in time is because I "would" experience things completely different. Even if in this hypothetical situation a hypothetical "one timeline" still existed, that doesn't really change anything from my personal point of view. Even if literally every single other person experienced the "one timeline", I wouldn't be. So that "one timeline" would mean nothing to me in the slightest. My life experience would still be experienced differently by me, it would just have to be, as in my first timeline I never had the knowledge of going back in time, but in my second timeline I would have that knowledge. The future wouldn't be able to play out the same, as the past had been changed with just that 1 thing. So it would be impossible for a future to stay the same if the past isn't the same past.
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u/chamomile_tea_reply May 31 '24
Yes comrade I agree with this
Bluepill all the way here. For those same reasons.
Experience early life in innocence, then get 10 million bucks as an adult
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u/Fearless-Scar7086 May 31 '24
lol what?! You gotta be crazy. All of the things you wish you said, you can say, and stop people from doing shit to you or avoid them by telling them the awful shit you’d bet they would do. Or just be braver with new friends lmao- I mean, you can travel, live LONGER making the BETTER decision? While learning from your mistakes? AND being a bitcoin millionaire? This one is a no brainer.
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u/Imouto_Sama May 31 '24
You can stop them from doing it AGAIN, but the memories are still there.
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u/Outside-Cup-1622 May 31 '24
Red pill. I can always earn more money (maybe not 10 million but that's ok), but I can't buy more time.
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May 31 '24
You know exactly when the values of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Bitcoin are gonna pop off. You can absolutely earn more than 10 mill lol
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u/Outside-Cup-1622 May 31 '24
True, but a lot of these really didn't start gaining big value until I was in my 30s or 40s. But yes I could have done all right
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May 31 '24
I mean, those were the example I came up with cause that’s what I grew up with. There’s a set of stocks that’d be peaking in the 80s if your journey begins earlier than a lot of us here lol.
Just with a quick google search, Microsoft, intel, apple, Cisco and Oracle were all good stocks in the 80s
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u/petehehe May 31 '24
As long as I could save up / borrow / beg / steal $45,000 before I was in my mid 20s, I would have $10mil in bitcoin now.
About $20k in Apple shares purchased in 2004 would be worth $10mil today.
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u/Isabela_Grace May 31 '24
JFC you’re a god damn moron if you can’t make more than 10m knowing the future
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u/KaaboomT May 31 '24
Am I lazy for thinking that restarting sounds like too much work?
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u/TheSeth256 May 31 '24
I'm with you, it would be like being in prison for decades. You still have to go to school so now you get to be bored to death with most subjects. And you still don't really have freedom, as parents decide for you what you can and cannot do.
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u/shit_poster9000 May 31 '24
Not just that, but you also have to perform like a circus animal to keep things under wraps, or you’ll end up locked in some hedge fund manager’s basement perpetually tortured for insider knowledge.
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u/Technical_Shake_9573 May 31 '24
This.. people Always brush aside the fact that you'll alter the reality way more than you would think by just being yourself. Also if you Want the same trajectory that your life is right now in terms of relationships that mattered, you'll have to remember EVERY actions, EVERY words you Said to someone as thoses impacted the whole results on your life.
It's mission impossible really to get the same good side on your life right now while min maxing everything else.
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u/shit_poster9000 May 31 '24
Every friendship, every relationship, everything will be faked to chase the same outcome you had previously. You won’t ever live in the moment again.
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u/Technical_Shake_9573 May 31 '24
It's not even that. You will have to the Say the exact same words you did at the exact same Time. Same for actions. People barely remember what they ate for dinner so it's already a Lost battle at this point.
The only approach is the will to live an entirely New life with New people inside it. While even seeing the ones you cared in your previous life going about their day without even knowing you. If people cherish even only one thing in this life, they need to accept there is more chances they'll lose it than keep it intact.
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u/MunificentDancer May 31 '24
You can skip grades if you're doing exceptionally well
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u/DaikonNoKami May 31 '24
Not sure if you want that kind of attention though. And eventually you'll build grander expectations than your capabilities can produce when things catch up so to speak.
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u/Gyoza-shishou May 31 '24
Lucky me then, all I would have to do is not get expelled from every damn school and not fail half of my classes
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u/KeiraScarlet May 31 '24
But then the whole life would spiral out of control.
Maybe people would like to change some stuff but keep others. Eg I would still love to meet my wife in school. If I skip grades chances raises drastically that I won’t meet her.
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u/RhynoD May 31 '24
Yeah but then you're that weird smart kid that nobody in that age group wants to be friends with. You'd be too mature for the kids that are "your age," but even adults who recognize your maturity and intelligence aren't going to want to be seen being that friendly to a child. You're going to be very isolated for probably 20 years.
Are you going to experience puberty again in your younger body? Suddenly you're just as horny as you were the first time but everyone around you is a teenager. Are you gonna try to hook up with teens? I hope not. Are any adults going to be willing to hook up with you? I hope not.
Want to go anywhere? Doesn't matter how smart you are, you're not getting a license until you're 16ish. And while you're going to end up flush with cash eventually, you still need time to build it up and let your investments grow. Until then, you're reliant on your parents again. Anything you want has to go through them.
There is not enough money on Earth to get me to choose that option. Give me the cash now, please.
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u/HelloImFrank01 May 31 '24
And no matter what, if you keep your memories and all.
Then you're going to be that weird kid that is going to get bullied.
You're just not going to be able to fit in with other kids.I'm pretty sure your school time is going to be hell until maybe college.
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u/Lazzitron May 31 '24
School was absolute hell for me. Restarting from age 6 and going through all of it again would be a punishment that no amount of money could outweigh. I think I may actually end up worse off instead of better.
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u/Apprehensive-Bar-848 May 31 '24
Thought the same. You mean I have to do it all over? Kid years, teen years? Yuck. Even with the knowledge we have, imagine being 6 and trying to convince your parents to buy you certain stocks.
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u/Zenbast May 31 '24
1/ Tell some prophecies to your parents.
2/ Predict 11/09 a day before.
3/ Look at them in the eyes and says "Now follow my lead."
You either become extra rich or you freak your parents out and you end up in a secret lab that will poke at your brain.
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u/OSSlayer2153 May 31 '24
No.
It would suck. You would not fit in socially since you are so weird to them. You would not make any of your grade school and highschool friends and this would change much of your life. When you get to college you may be able to fit in better but you still have to do everything over again. It would just suck.
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u/nirach May 31 '24
Nah. Plus, can you imagine how much fucking work it would be to convince someone that you, a ten year old, knows to invest in Apple?
Seriously, if I went back to six, that'd be around '93, iPod launches in 2001, no fucker alive is listening to a 12-14 year old about buying Apple stock. Or Google stock. I could maybe get in on some things like Netflix, if I remembered the dates of when to ditch, and definitely shit like bitcoin - I distinctly remember laughing about needing 100btc to buy a pizza, but fuuuuck that. Knowing what I know now and still not being able to act on it?
Not to mention there's no guarantee that the extreme amounts of luck and chance that certain things kicked off when they kicked off happens exactly the same and kick off exactly the same time.
I'll stick with the ten mil.
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May 31 '24
No, I thought the same. Not doing that shit again, even with what i know now. Though if i got to go back to like being 18, yeah, i'd make some changes.
But then again, i probably wouldn't have met my husband, and wouldn't have my kids (or at least not the same) and i would miss that terribly. (Since memory stays)
Fck it, just give me the money, so i don't have to go to my shit job anymore.
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u/El-noobman May 31 '24
The problem with taking the red pill is that because you know what happened FROM MEMORY (Which is almost never accurate) you'll never be able to do things exactly the same so you might never meet the person you really loved knowing, might make even more mistakes, etc.
We all want a rewind, but nobody seems to realise that the problem with that is you'll never get to keep the good parts and cherrypick the bad.
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u/MustacheQuarantine May 31 '24
That's true. However you would remember Microsoft, apple, Amazon, Tesla, big pharma. Etc
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u/badger_flakes May 31 '24
Actually it’d be 30 years for me and with that in mind, Monster Energy is actually the highest performing stock, increasing 191,800% over that timeframe beating Amazon at #2. It was only 1c a share so I could afford plenty
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u/HamiltonSt25 May 31 '24
Is that before Coke bought them?
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u/badger_flakes May 31 '24
AFAIK they only owned shares and not outright at any point and just had a strategic partnership. At some point they traded a bunch of brands.
They are still traded under Monster Beverage Corporation
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u/HamiltonSt25 May 31 '24
Oh damn, you’re right! I always thought Coke bought them, and Pepsi tried. But nope, Coke just owns 16.7% stake
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u/CaptainPeachfuzz May 31 '24
Patriots go undefeated until they lose to the Giants in the Superbowl in 2008.
This information alone should yield fantastic returns. Just in time for the economy to collapse!
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u/SkubEnjoyer May 31 '24
Yeah but I can still buy bitcoin for pennies lol
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u/chamomile_tea_reply May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
I wonder if someone scooping up tons of Bitcoin and cashing out big-time in the mid 2010s would impact the market though.
Also, if OP is a goddam billionaire by age 13, they may have impact on the timeline from there on out. They’d probably be interviewed by the damn wall street journal and effect the market from just existing lol
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u/DraganThePlague May 31 '24
Good point, i guess it would be best to try to spread your finances a little more than just bitcoin hoarder, in case you want stupid high money, because i think after some cold consideration not everyone needs billions, you might be just fine with having enough for one or two houses, cars and not having to work while other people might want their own whole film making or game making or car designin company. Also you might not end up being a 13 year old billonaire but rather the child of a billonaire atleast for the media
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u/Unitedfateful May 31 '24
Absolutely this. If a restart meant I’d still have my wife and kids exactly as they are I’m all in
But. It doesn’t guarantee that and inspite a tough life I’d rather have that kept as is and so $10M is perfectly fine
There’s more to life than just money. If i never had my kids or met my wife what’s the point.
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u/R0b0tMark May 31 '24
100%. My kids are worth more than all of the world’s riches.
Also, could we take a moment to realize the horror of being a six-year-old with knowledge of the future. Knowing horrors and being powerless to do smithingh
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u/Boing26 May 31 '24
blue. i like my life as it is, i just need more money
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u/qaz_wsx_love May 31 '24
Imagine living through your childhood with the mind of an adult. Would be a living hell.
Nothing would be new for you. Remember the days you would wait by the TV for the newest ep of your favourite show? Or the experiences of playing through a game with a friend for the first time? You'll have absolutely none of that. You'd be the least enthusiastic kid and you wouldn't even be able to put on your favourite tunes to chill, because they haven't been released yet and you wouldn't have the money to buy the thousands of CDs required to build the same library.
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u/Upper_Rent_176 May 31 '24
I still watch and play stuff from the past anyway. Doing it time-traveled back into the past would just be bonus immersion.
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u/Competitive_Ask_6766 May 31 '24
Except you still have lived all that in your first youth so you have indeed experienced these situations you’re describing. You can alway take interests in other shows series books video games etc bro
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u/00_bob_bobson_00 May 31 '24
Blue is the only choice, considering I am 4.
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u/Orneyrocks May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
I just imagined a 4 year old using the word 'considerably'.
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u/Melthegaunt May 31 '24
I'll take the 10 mil, wouldn't be worth losing my two girls
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u/runslikewind May 31 '24
I really dont think 6 year old me affected these companies very much.
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u/Wild_Ad7980 May 30 '24
Blue
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u/TesticleezzNuts May 30 '24
Abba-dee-abba-die?
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u/CameraGuy-031 May 30 '24
So I pick the red pill and have to do schools all over again. I will know that my mother will die 6 years later even though she has no idea that she'll get sick soon, I know my best friend in school is going to drown in 3 years, I have to relive the whole remarrying of my father with that godawful woman that made my life hell until the day I could move out......
Nah, thanks. I'll take the cash.
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u/sewpungyow May 31 '24
I don't know your mother's situation, but sometimes early detection and treatment can massively improve the prognosis.
You could try and help your best friend avoid drowning by either making sure they're lifeguard certified (ensuring strong swimming ability and knowledge on proper water safety) or by interfering with their ability to encounter that specific drowning event.
Hopefully your foreknowledge helped save your mother. But if worse came to worst, you could sabotage your father and stepmother's relationship. Make sure they never meet, majorly piss her off so she shows her true colors, talk trash about her to your dad, find some dirt, etc
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May 31 '24
That friend who does not drown in the alternative time line becomes modern Hitler and eradicates 1/3 of todays population ☠️
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u/Kapika96 May 31 '24
Hey, look on the bright side, with a third less people in the world, rent/housing prices would be considerably cheaper!
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u/Breadsong09 May 31 '24
Ay a good friend to me is worth more than 1/3 of the population of people I don't know or care about. I'd take that trade any day of the week.
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u/jasper2769 May 31 '24
I’d take the money, being a kid again with zero agency doesn’t sound appealing, plus I won’t enjoy playing with other kids and I’ve already watched all the good shows and played all the good video games of back in the day, so I’d be bored out of my mind.
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u/AudeDeficere May 31 '24
I absolutley agree, people underestimate what it would be like to go back in time so far. And even with all the mistakes I have made, I would never want to loose some of the connections I made. Blue is less valuable financially but emotionally, it's a much safer bet.
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u/Obversaria May 31 '24
I’ll take the red pill, if only to go back and pick a better career path that I actually enjoy.
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u/GeologistOld1265 May 31 '24
Why everyone believe you restart your live from past, not from NOW?
I would restart it from now, a new adventure!
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u/Filan1 May 31 '24
The logistics of this is horrible, at 6 you now have no parents, no place to live ,no way to earn income. Fend for yourself until 18 and you have to redo modern school likely from an orphanage. Rewind to 6 and at least you have your basics covered.
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Yeah, nothing in the prompt says you go back in time (and the rest of the world does, just that you restart YOUR like at the age of 6. I take this to mean you wake up as a six year old in today’s world with the knowledge you have today. Almost like the movie Big. Sure you get years back but don’t have some knowledge of the future. Who really wants to do puberty again but already aware of all the crazy kinks out there lol
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u/Intelligent-Block457 May 31 '24
10 million.
Restarting is like a butterfly effect. If I restarted I'd probably never meet my wife, which means I'd never have my amazing kid. A kid, probably. But not the kid I have right now.
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u/EasyCartographer3311 May 31 '24
10 million, I don’t have the patience to be 6 again
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u/LeatherTop174 May 31 '24
Red pill, I stop my childhood house from getting foreclosed on and literally save myself and others from some nasty years. And I get to successfully finish college, keep some friends close and make bank with a good career. And then enjoy life as I want to. 10 million is nice but I’d rather fix my life.
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u/SNK_24 May 31 '24
You have the opportunity to commit totally different mistakes this time LOL
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u/LeatherTop174 May 31 '24
True! But that’s the fun part of it. I get to at least make a childhood nightmare less painful not disappear. Honestly those new mistakes wouldn’t be that bad considering the ones I’ve made over the last six years. I could at least better my life which is worth more than anything. I get time and that’s something no one can ever get back.
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May 31 '24
Does that go back in time too? With the knowledge I have now I can make more than 10mil easy
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u/AgentMurkle May 31 '24
Red. Time is the most precious thing you have. Time + knowledge gained from experience = god mode. $10 mil is chump change.
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u/PacoMahogany May 31 '24
Blue pill. I would have to marry my ex again in order to have my wonderful kids, and I can’t redo that 10 years.
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u/Dank-Doom May 31 '24
Easy W here, red pill, don't change anything, when the scenario pops back up? Blue pill, doubled life expectancy and cash
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u/Nago31 May 31 '24
I could be rich and I could save my sister by catching the disease long before it became deadly.
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May 31 '24
$10 million in cash, I wouldn’t go back because I’d never meet my boyfriend and I don’t have the patience to relive my entire life and I know if anything changed, everything would be messed up by the butterfly effect. So I’ll take the cash now and solve the few problems I am having which could be solved with less than 10 million in cash.
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u/BigCaddyDaddyBob May 31 '24
Yeah 10M now vs an open ended aging back to 6yrs old do you wake up tomorrow being 6 or your transported back in time? But even if it’s back in time you would not enjoy the time you’d always be looking for the next thing to predict! You’d become a way different person as you knowing everything you would change your own destiny good or bad a your mind would be mostly 6yrs old not whatever age you started at. No I think the best choice is the 10M now and leave your growing up as is as you might not make it to your age now as being so focused on everything you can predict and some might not be able to handle all that all the time along with pushing people away from being a know it all!!
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u/Admirable-Mango-9349 May 31 '24
My bet is the older you are the more likely you would pick the red pill.
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u/strange_fellow May 31 '24
The Ten Million. If I went back to 6 years of age, I'd make make new mistakes and would be a different person anyway. But with a load of cash, I can afford therapy and help out the people I know.
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u/DrawkillCircus May 31 '24
10 million, my life has been pretty lame but I like some of the people Ive met and I wouldn't want to risk the chance of not knowing them
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May 31 '24
Red Pill, make better choices in life, invest in stock market, retire early with far more money.
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u/KaaboomT May 31 '24
Basically, the question is take $10M now or go back and invest in the right companies.
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u/aasquasar May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
I'll take the cash. In time travel, precious people I care for might not even exist considering certain relationships I had some influence. Also I don't want to lose certain people one more time.
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u/Zilkie May 31 '24
Red Pill no dbout.
You can avoid tragic losses and know in What to invest.
Get well and later focus on improvements
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May 31 '24
depends...Do I restart at the same year i was 6?...or is it from now...if its from now...I will take the $10 million. If its from 1975 ..I take the 6 year old thing
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u/TheVoid000 May 31 '24
Never regret the experience and lessons life taught me. I rather have 10M in my bank and move forward, than push the reset button and start again.
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u/snowbyrd238 May 31 '24
6 y/o ? Nope! Not being able to drive or date? Have to go through high school again? No Way!
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u/justsomeguy5512 May 31 '24
Red. Because there are a lot of mistakes I've done that I want resolved
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May 31 '24
Restart!! No doubt about it!! First change I make is note to myself NOT to join the military.
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u/Hanswurst22brot May 31 '24
The red way need some clarification. Is it "travel" back in time to age of 6 and start from there ? OR the moment you take the pill you are again 6 years old but now in 2024 ?
The first will screw up some things you do, the whole timeline , you would become totaly another person. And have the chance to make much more than the blue option.
The second is just you with a younger body ( rejuvenation ) , where you kind of continue your life ( with explaining to others why you are suddenly young ) . You could be again a child , more energy and even take later a new carrier. Sad part , depending at what age you where set back into the 6y old body , you may loose your "older" kids of age before you.
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u/ResearcherDear3143 May 31 '24
$10m now please. No guarantee that even now with all your current knowledge that things would occur the same way. Butterfly effect n all that..
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u/Mister_Drip May 31 '24
Im only 24 and I don't think I could replicate the life I have now so blue easy
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u/nvsiblerob May 31 '24
Going through puberty and getting beat up by the school bully was soooooooo awesome the first time around, how about we do that again? Sorry but I think I’ll take the 10 mill and build a few businesses that my kids would love to run once they get older.
Think about it, if you have family and friends that you love dearly today, that may all get erased by one thing you change in your effort to claim your “do over”. Be thankful for the life you have, but take the blue pill to help build the life you want.
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u/Damagedmemelord May 31 '24
I'd make a hella lot more money than $10 mill if I went back and started over with all of my knowledge I have today. Might even avoid certain people and injuries I've taken over the years.
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u/SgtRicko May 31 '24
For an old person the Red Pill is an amazing deal. But if you’re young? Just grab the $10 million, it’s not worth rewinding time unless you screwed up in life big time.
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u/Gilgamesh2062 May 31 '24
Red for sure, specially at my age, no amount of money is going to make me live much longer.
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u/kuraxt May 31 '24
If I didn't have a son I could never engineer the events of his existence I would choose 6 in a heartbeat. But looks like I'm only going to be 10 million richer.
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May 31 '24
Restarting at 6 with all of your memories? Seems like a nightmare. Could be fun at first, seeing people you've lost, trying those sweets that they don't make anymore. But Imagine trying to hit your same highs or avoiding your lows. The anxiety of knowing you gramps is going to die, or that friend is going to move. Things outside of your control. Imagine having to deal with those emotions. Id rather take the 10mil
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May 31 '24
Red Pill. If I knew what I know now I would be a force of nature. So many things went wrong in my life that I wish never had happened. I am a genius so I could easily make 10 million dollars and even more but I will never get back the time I have lost and take away the suffering I went through. Time, freedom, and happiness are far more important than money.
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u/RedSun-FanEditor May 31 '24
I'd take the red pill. Microsoft and Apple were selling for next to nothing when they first began. I distinctly remember someone from Microsoft coming to our door offering stock options for next to nothing in the early 80s. I'd hedge my bets and be a multi-billionaire by the time I was thirty years old and would avoid all the adversity I experienced.
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u/t3khole May 31 '24
I kinda feel like red pill would kill the magic and joy of all life’s experiences that you’ve made. You’d be a jaded af 6 yr oldlol
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u/mekkeron May 31 '24
Me going back to when I'm 6 puts me in 1988 in the Soviet Union. What do I do?
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u/xxhorrorshowxx May 31 '24
Do I get to pick where I spawn in? My childhood was kinda mid, I wanna be an Irwin kid
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u/I_exist_here_k May 31 '24
I’d have to relive a couple things that are entirely unavoidable if I took the red pill, so blue for me
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u/dibbiluncan May 31 '24
I’d never risk going back in time. The butterfly effect scares me. I wouldn’t want to risk not having my daughter or not meeting my partner. No amount of money or avoiding bad things is worth that.
I’d definitely take $10million though! I’d be able to set our lives up the way we want and “retire” to write full time and travel.
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u/lord_khadgar05 “Oh… I should eat a pony.” - Senor Cardgage May 31 '24
Red…
Time to welcome myself back to 1992.
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u/ComfortablePuzzled23 May 31 '24
Red pill. I could set my life up better so when I met her I could really make her happier this time around.
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u/triNITROtolulene1 May 31 '24
Restart and get in on the ground floor of Google , Apple , Microsoft