I’d take the $10 mil. Childhood seems like it would be a lot less fun if I had to go through it again but now with the jaded mind of a middle aged man.
I can for sure find a way to have fun with ten million dollars though 😉
Yeah my childhood sucked, and knowing I’d have another 12 years of abuse with nobody taking me seriously because I’m a kid? No thanks. I could put $10mil to good use right now.
Mine sucked too but I’m trans and would kill to have known that information from the getgo rather than finding out in my 20s
I’m really sorry to hear that you had to go through that, and you can tell me to fuck right off if you don’t want to think about it, but you got me wondering.
Do you think if you went back, you could use what you know today to prevent/avoid it and see how that changes your life?
My childhood also sucked, but I’d go back.
My parents weren’t monsters, they were flawed people doing what they thought was best… If I could go back and clearly assert myself and my needs? Especially with what I know now?
I’d take that deal.
Not too mention, I’m a programmer. I know every major advancement we’ve made in the past decades…If I designed a language in the early 00’s, I would be worshipped by all programmers. I could’ve made Uber when the iphone launched, and never took a dime in investments. I’d also jump forward AI tech by a couple decades - I could make the world unrecognizable. I’d be a household name, although I’d probably use a pseudonym
Yep, red pill would be 3rd place after ‘neither’. I don’t need the burden of that knowledge at 6, especially without the power to act on it.
Plus, all of my friends would effectively be dead if I took the red pill.
My 30 year-old mind is not going to be able to get along with my friends when they were also six, and no grownups are going to want to be friends with me as a six year-old, besides pedophiles.
It’d be a very lonely few decades, and no amount of stock exchange billions are worth that for me.
I’m definitely taking the money now.
If I get back to 2005 I can easily get more than 10 millions by the time it’s 2024 again. Plus all the other perks of restarting your life
Easy. Bitcoin.
- Zoom and GameStop stock.
Where is your initial capital coming from. Less than 100,000 will not get you to 10 mil, even mining at an early age requires either wealthy parents or venture capital.
Running a digital farm takes money. Something you clearly haven’t thought out.
Early mining required a mid-tier gaming PC, the kind you could finance with a paper route
Think of all the time that you could waste again!
You become 6 again, but it’s still 2024 and you really freak out your parents. No getting to know the future.
No way I’m going through childhood again. Mine sucked.
Do I go back in time to when I was six (red pill then) or am I 6 in 2024 (blue pill then)?
If I go back in time am I morally obligated to try to stop 9/11?
Did you see that episode of Family Guy? I think world events still have to happen.
Your best bet would be to set fires in both towers, causing their evacuation.
I didn’t ask how to prevent it, I asked if I’m morally obligated to try.
Sure, but how was more fun, and I had no moral duty to reply to your actual question
I didn’t even think of the possibility of becoming 6 now. That’s a good monkeys paw scenario.
If I choose red, I wouldn’t be able to guarantee my daughter would be born even if I met my wife because of, well, biology, but if choose the blue pill I can make sure she’ll have a huge head start on life from this point out, so blue pill it is.
Exactly! In the past, I would have chosen the red pill to change decisions that I made in the past. But today there are some things in my life that are not directly the result of conscious decisions, but that I would not want to miss.
Yeah same. I would love to avoid so much pain and suffering I went through, so much wasted time and bad decisions, but I would not risk it if I didn’t end up with my spouse and child. So, blue pill all the way. Also, 10 mil would actually solve 95% of all our problems to be honest.
Wholesome take
You can guarantee that she won’t be born
Used to want the red pill but I have a kid now. Resetting would almost assuredly cause me to end up with a different kid.
I’m team blue.
There’s a related movie that I highly recommend: About Time.
Very good movie
Oh yeah I love that movie. I have it on my server.
This. My kids and my pets - I’d be haunted for the rest of my life knowing I traded them in. I’ll take the 10 mill and be happy.
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Money. I ain’t doing this shit again.
But you can do it better the second time. Also you can be rich if when you turn 18 you invest in things you know succeed like Apple, Microsoft, amazon… granted I dunno how young you are, but I’d be going back to the early 90s, and could invest in stuff in the early 2000s
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.
Absolutely. Anyone who would go back in time purely to make more money is a fool if they think having more than 10 million dollars would make a tangible difference on their quality of life. Who cares if you make a billion off of bitcoin? For 10 mil you can be extremely comfortable and don’t have to relive some of the most awkward years of your life. Only way it would be different is if your choices got someone killed or something.
More than 10M gives you the ability to change popular opinions, spur good industries, kill bad business
Enough more lets you hire people who can help spend the money effectively
That’s a brilliant way to answer.
Reminds me of the plot to Shrek 4, where he has to find Fiona and get her to fall in love all over again.
That was my thought too. Too risky.
So true. My wife and I are high school sweet hearts but also both very different people now. The boy she fell in love with initially I couldn’t properly emulate. We were deep into Christianity and even met at church. We’ve since both lost our faith. I wouldn’t be able to pretend without her seeing through my bullshit.
what if you didnt restart life in the current time but went back in time when you were 6?
Still a massive chance I would never meet my partner.
Blue pill. Restarting with all my knowledge, I might end up not meeting my soulmate and not having my kid, because of randomness. I can’t have that.
Easy. Blue. No way am I doing this shit again.
Easy, give me the blue pill. My mistakes and choices have brought me to where I am and have made me who I am. I wouldn’t change my life for anything, especially not to correct a few mistakes. Most importantly I may not have met my wife or have my kids if I change anything. I’ll take the money and use it to improve the life I have.
That is a good answer bud. I totally relate
While I could easily get more than $10mil with my current knowledge (assuming I go back in time to 6yrs old), I would not have the same wife or child as I do now, and there’s no way I’ll give them up, so I’ll just take the $10mil now .
My brain says the blue pill because money.
My heart says the red pill because I miss my soulmate and would give anything for a chance with her again.
I’m sorry you lost your soulmate.
The one thing is would you end up with your soul mate again and even if you did it wouldn’t be the same relationship you had back then. I thought about this and have 3 kids and don’t know if I would want to give up on my kids because there’s no way I could say goodbye to my kids and never see them again.
With the red pill, do I go back in time to when I was 6 with all of my knowledge or become a different 6 year old now with all of my knowledge?
Becoming some random six-year-old would be pretty jarring
Yea, or do I become me as a six year old in the modern day?
If it was a monkey paw type of situation you’d probably become a six year old child in pre-historic times.
You become a 6 year old in the present, and you spawn at Point Nemo.
Monkey paw is supposed to suck, not be instant death
I think between being a cute kid and BEGGING my dad who likes to gamble to invest EVERYTHING on Yahoo! From 1994 until the pets.com Superbowl commercial ad aired, and then just hardlined him into selling, he’s probably be able to cut me 10 mil.
Let alone that Id be saying “Microsoft! Coca Cola! Amazon! Apple! Oracle! Pfizer! Johnson & Johnson! Berkshire Hathaway! Wal Mart! And in war years, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin! Intel! Amd! Nvidia!” The whole time.
I’d be a fucking billionaire. Straight up. It would t be gambling, it would be a free money glitch.
Timing Bitcoin right?? Doge?? Get outta here. I’d have more money than anyone on earth.
If I could redo the life I was given with all my current knowledge, 10M would be like the average size of a charity donation or a gift that I would be giving.
Red pill. You can make money, but you can’t make time.
I’m putting my allowance into msft and amazon.
See also dogecoin and bitcoin
Bitcoin, damn… my dad hat a friend mining “a few” on his balcony. He is probably rich right now
I bought some bitcoin at 70, but it was for grey market narcotics. The fraction of a dollar left turned into 20 twice lol
That depends on if you want time
