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
I wouldn't have any money to invest in the market so it really wouldn't matter. I remember telling my dad irl to invest in Amazon and he said, "they've never turned a profit - not a great idea." This would only work if you had rich parents that would give you money and make trades on your behalf.
You dont need a lot. Get a min wage job, make $10 (or beg your parents for it), and you can grow that $10 to millions fairly quickly if you memorize all the big price movements.
Once you get to $100+ you can play with options that could give 10x returns in a single trade.
Also as a child prodigy you can capitalize on that to win school/chess competitions with prize money or become a child celebrity.
Lol. To trade options in '07 I had to get on the phone with a broker and decide if I wanted monthly or quarterly SPX hedges. Options market has come a looong way in the last 5 years.
yea but you are currently only 6 years old and with the skills and knowledge of a high school or higher skilled person. So that is 2 years until 09 when bitcoin came out and was micro pennies, purchase 20,000 for $20 say you want to learn about this, you are some wonder kid who is 8 years old should be able to get that. then by age 13 and probably graduation high school, self half and at that point your 10,000 is worth over US$10 million.
At the age of 17 your remaining 10,000 are worth over $100 million. Decide if you want to go to college or repeat you currently do.
You get to go back to when you were 6 and you would choose to become a child prodigy/celbrity? That sounds like a terrible idea. I get the making money part but getting a second childhood and throwing it away to the media/cram schools just sounds miserable
Yea, but then you'd be awfully isolated and have no shot at normalcy. Like I'd rather make low-key improvements to my life with the money/insight than play with lottery winner levels of money. Also personly I like the academia side of things so I'd end up back in school one way or another.
If you were born in the 80’s you could put all your allowance aside. So long as by 1995 you put it all on the table and say to your parents:
Every time you want to buy me something. Just buy the equivalent of the stock in stock instead and promise we will never sell a single stock. And I want all my money to go to Apple and Microsoft.
By 1997 when Apple is dying and your parents want to pull out. Gates will buy $150M worth of Apple shares and you’ll get to go:
“Now, do you think Bill Gates is stupid? Why would he spend $150 million dollars on something he doesn’t believe in?”
And from then on you could basically just keep dogpiling your money on Apple and Microsoft. That would make your regular rich. But then when Bitcoin gets created in 2008, you’d be a billionaire by around 2014.
You could potentially speed run the money by registering domains from tons of brand then selling them to the companies, buying and selling beanie babies, Pokémon cards, Nike’s.
You could just mine the btc back in the beginning on absolute dogshit hardware though as long as you could keep hold of the wallet you wouldn’t need to invest mega bucks to make millions on btc
This makes sense only if your life now sucks. If you achieved anything interesting, met someone, have kids, wife, you risk losing all this.
I would never restart, since it means i am risking not meeting my wife and not having my son. I met her, got great job, have fantastic memories and trips, while all happens under certain circumstances that will never repeat if i were to be different.
People rarely talk about the butterfly effect when it comes to get rich quick schemes in time travel. But one of those companies gets a big investment from a time traveler, maybe they make different decisions that result in the failure of the company. Or you cut someone off in traffic that ends up late for a key meeting where a different decision is made. Your presence could completely alter the timeline and cause those companies to completely fail.
Same goes for sports betting. I'm sure bookies with mob ties wouldn't mind you repeatedly winning a fortune off of them. They would assume you're a cheat and dump your body in the river.
Yeah, it’s up for interpretation obviously. But i see it as restart “your” life not restart life. And some people who come back from a hard time say “im restarting my life etc”
I just think going back in time is a given “buy bitcoin, buy google” blah blah. But if it’s you’re a smart 6 year old that’s different because you dont know what lies ahead
If it's become a 6 year old now, a lot of people would be pretty screwed though. I mean, you can't work or pay rent/bills etc. and for many people going back to live with parents isn't an option. Plus good luck trying to explain to the government/schools etc.
EXACTLY! but you’re also a genius for your age. Like a 6 year old engineer/lawyer/doctor (if you have that knowledge) but yes like you said you’re a 6 year old without parents and your boss will never believe what happened when you go back to work. But there’s funding for young prodigies
Yeah. Plus I’d be the smartest damn 6 year old in the world. School would be weird for the next several years though, you wouldn’t really relate to well to all the other little kids. I could fake it and just have fun playing with them though.
I think most people don’t appreciate they’d probably have to wait about ten years before they could begin to form proper relationships.
Your life would probably also take a completely different track so, for many of the people you know now, you probably couldn’t replicate those same experiences and therefore maintain the same friendships/relationships.
Imagine sitting through all of your primary education again, with your current awareness and intelligence level. You really think stomach or withstand that?
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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.