In which scenario would you last longer before being outed as a time traveller? (lemmy.world)

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Being dropped 500 years ago into your ancestors' community.
Being dropped 500 years into the future in your community.

You have a day to source some clothing appropriate to the time period. Unfortunately, that's not enough time to learn a dialect.

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[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

On the other hand, 500 years ago you would probably be taken for insane or possessed if you accidentally spoke and/or acted as people do today.

Back then that’s a high chance of getting burned on a stake or possibly lobotomized by some crude scholar experimenting on a perceived madman.

In comparison in the future, provided mankind still exists, you’d be taken as an interesting walking anachronism to be studied. Maybe someone who gets to talk about life in the past at a university. But either way you’d most likely live a comfortable life of futuristic luxury in either a utopian post scarcity society, or kept as some feudal dilettante's status symbol. Still better than dying of dysentery in the dark ages imo

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