I’m not sure if people here realize this, but the interest from $10m is approximately four to eight hundred thousand dollars per year.
So, with ten million, one could instantly retire and never ever have to work again.
That’s priceless freedom to me, and it wouldn’t require deleting almost all of my friends, relationships, experiences, and who I am.
Red pill, because it’ll eventually take me back to this moment and then I’ll pick the blue pill.
Except not since you would have to replicate your current life to the smallest thing imaginable, and if you didn’t it would cause a butterfly effect meaning you probably wouldn’t get this opportunity anymore
Also knowing about
- 9/11 (investing in detector manifacturers, fucking shampoo in small bottles)
- covid (investing in masks, vaccines, tests and test centers)
- all the wars: weapon industry in Germany
- Apple, Google, Amazon, …
You could just buy stock and get rich without doing anything. If you made such a company, damn.
I mean investing in that post 9/11 stuff would make you rich, then you lend money to those Covid people and tadaa, Capitalism
Also maybe you could change something in the world, worth more than money.
There’s nearly 0% odds I end up with the same wife and kids twice and I hit the jackpot the first time around. Give me the money.
Red makes more potential money (buy Apple, buy BTC) but that means it would be almost impossible to meet all my friends and I need to make new ones. Ugh I hate talking with people
Blue. No mistake reversion or bitcoin investing would outweigh possibly never meeting my partner again. With Blue, I have everything I could ever want from this life, with red, I may lose everything important to me now.
For $10M, I might just retire, buy a house and raise my kid.
Sure beats having to struggle at work.
I grew up in abject poverty. Going back to 6 just means another 20+ years of struggle and hardship.
10 mill means safety for me and mine for a minimum of 100 years.
Why would I take the option that includes watching friends die of lack of money all over again rather than the one that results in stability for me and mine.
Anyone who says go back to 6 comes from family money.
That’s not a money issue. There are people from poor places that had good childhoods, such as farming families. Not saying there wasn’t struggle tho.
Red pill. Would save so much more in childhood trauma and that’s priceless.
There are pros and cons. First of all, let’s assume you go back to the year you were 6 instead of becoming a 6 year old in 2024 (oof). Being an adult in a child’s mind, you could basically be a demi-God. You could pick stocks, pick world series winners, and even pick winning lottery numbers if you had that type of thing written down. You would also have your emotional development that you have right now. You would be seen as a wise sage-like golden child. Downside is, if you are used to having a sex life, well, kiss that good bye for at least 12 years. Another downside is living through the period of time when you’re going through puberty or have to live with an abusive relative because you’re a minor and can’t do shit.
I think, all said and done, I’ll just take the 10 mil.
Red pill if it means I go back in time to when I was 6yrs old. Blue pill if not.
Edit: having to live through puberty again would be painful, but there’s a fair amount of stuff I could, and likely would, do a lot differently.
Everyone is choosing red because they think they would be rich, but would they?
Imagine having the knowledge, that you knowingly stepped back in time, and all of your memories are now not real. They won’t happen again unless you actually act exactly as you had before. No one believes anything you say because you are 6. You’re forced to go through school again at 6.
Let’s say you use your genius to progress quickly through school. Those sorts of kids become famous prodigies. You would end up on the talk show circuit with Ellen.
You would also know way more about your parents than you should at that age, and cause familial issues that would land you on Dr. Phil.
Imagine how torturous it would be to relive every moment, not being able to convince anyone of anything due to your age, unless you give up the fact that you were somehow sent back in time and know the future. Would you be able to convince your family without going insane? Would any government agency take qcute interest in your foresight? Imagine having to keep a level head while also going through puberty a second time.
How much will your presence affect the timeline? Maybe your first big move to get rich causes all subsequent moves to not exist. Maybe your parents hate you. Maybe it’s chaos theory. Maybe you end up taking a path away from opulence and become an addict due to the constant anxiety, regret and boredom. Maybe you become a nihilistic mess that drives you to a worse life than you had before.
I’d take the definite of $10M. I know what I would do with it right now. I know it would be good.
Edit: a downvote without a reply telling me how I’m wrong is really an upvote.
I down voted for your cringey edit about down votes without telling you why your wrong being an upvote.
Blue pill: I would die of boredom if I had to go back to school for more than a couple of days.
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Red pill. You can make money, but you can’t make time.
Red pill is too vague. Do you go back in time to when you were 6? If so then red pill is good because you could just achieve all you’ve already achieved faster and you have more time for other stuff. Do you just turn into a 6 year old? No thanks, not about to restart on hard mode.
Also is that time really that valuable if you’re going to spend a significant part of it threading the same ground?
That why I’d take the blue pill, clearer outcome and with 10 mil I could easily improve the quality of my time. For instance by completely ditching work I have much more time to see my children grow up.
With the red pill, the blue pill is redundant.
