I was 6 in 1990. I can make stock moves that are worth more than $10 million by the time I get to today pretty easily. Maybe fix a couple things that could've gone differently while I'm there. I'm not scared of randomness, I've thrived in it once already.
Blue pill all day. I'd never give up my daughter and we could spend the rest of our lives vacationing.
Red, easily.
Yeah, some childhood stuff would suck but you could probably skip a good few grades. As you already (hopefully) know how to socialize by now, a lot of the childhood friend stuff seems pretty optional.
Dating would be really tricky through the early teenage years as I don't know how I'd feel about girls my own physical age at that point.
Because I'm relatively older and would have insane future knowledge, I could absolutely rock in stocks and have enough money to actually effect change. (Eg, singelhandedly fund a massive Democrat turnout machine in the rustbelt for 2016.)
The hard part would be somehow connecting with my current group of friends whom I love to death and wouldn't want to lose. They are the only thing that makes the blue pill tempting.
Red pill. Would save so much more in childhood trauma and that's priceless.
I'm liking the "going back to when I was 6 with all the knowledge I have now" option, but in reality 6 year old me would probably be too immature to know I need to remember it and by the time I needed to use that information in any sane way it would have been long forgotten.
I mean some people are saying get bitcoin early days, but 6 year old me was at least 10 years off Bitcoin existing.
It would also really suck knowing how easy it was to obtain information in the future only to be stuck in the past and barely have access to the internet at all.
Knowledge respawn, easily. 10M is chump change compared to what you could make just diamond handing two pizzas worth of BTC in 2010
Here's my take, if went back to when I was 6, I probably wouldn't have the same friends I have now, like genuinely amazing friends. I'd rather not live though middle school and highschool again.
So I'll take the 10 million dollar blue pill.
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
Red pill. My dumbass thinks I could "fix" the people that fucked up my childhood with the knowledge I have now
I'd like to go back with my memories, but might run into some sort of time cop situation. It's a tough call.
I'd have to wait 10 years to buy Apple at $0.07 per share, but I think I could collect enough money to make that into more than $10 million.
Red, and then just get bitcoins early on and invest in tesla, by the time i'm back at 2024 I would have way more then 10M
Neither. Trick question.
I’d choose the secret third option:
The cyanide pill.
Gimme the money, I'm counting down the years I dont want any extra xD
Blue pill, it said you revert to a certain age, but not a certain time, meaning any information you've kept could be useless in an unfamiliar environment.
Also, it never states that time and reality will play out the same exact way, making said knowledge even more useless.
It also does not say about a location in space. So it might be Venus.
I think, if you went back in time and started, for example, trying to get rich playing the stock market, you would be surprised by how much things change with your interference. Like, Bitcoin still goes up, but peaks at a different price. The same team wins the super bowl but by a different score. The longer things go on the weirder it would get.
One thing to consider, assuming the red one is mental time travel (which is the only way it'd really be at all useful), you're essentially murdering everyone who exists from your subjective present to the jump point to replace with at best very similar clones and possibly no one or completely different people. Then you have to also assume the timeline isn't fixed and you can actually change things, and thus contend with butterfly effect causing divergence making your knowledge less useful. Sure, little changes probably won't impact things on a global scale for a while, but once you start doing big things like investing or preventing terrorist attacks or something that could cause major divergence. Ethically any kind of useful time travel should be limited to "World is already wiped out" scale scenarios where the alternative is worse.
This post is really revealing which people are happy with how their lives turned out and which ones aren't.
Is there a "$5 million and an 'AGE - 25%' " option ?
I'd be happy to go back to being 37yo with $5m and still dying at or around (or earlier) than my current unknown death day!!
If I'm going out, its with a lot of bang[ing]!
Can I restart my life at 6 with $10 million in Google stocks?
I guess you have to take time. It's invaluable. Plus you have great investment opportunities.