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Anything goes but I'm particularly interested in habits/practices/abillities that are real and otherwise can be developed with time and effort.

Keeping living space clean at all times

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[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Have you seen the movie "In Time" about this very thing? Rich people live forever and wealth is accumulated as the duration you can live for. It's a cool concept and a pretty good movie.

[–] Shawdow194@kbin.run 11 points 3 months ago

Yes! Low key underrated movie

[–] teegus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it anything like Logan's run?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 3 months ago

Cyberpunk dystopia. They share that.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sound like a good idea, but turning immortality pay to win could, in the worst case, make it, so that only the rich can afford it. And thereby only creating an even greater constantly increasing devide between the population.

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[–] Modva@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

A once off time rewind by 28 years.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Apart from world peace (of course), a change gender voucher. Would probably cost 300 gems or something.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I second the change gender voucher. But a character makeover ticket would be even better.

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A house by the lake would be nice. Perhaps an island as well.

[–] keletappi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I would definitely go for a recursive island. It’s an island with a lake, that has an island.

Turns out there’s a ton of them in Finland.

There I would build my house: by a private lake, with a summer house on the private island on the private lake.

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[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

A house in the woods.

Speaking and reading all languages.

Mastering all instruments.

Learning the Cha-cha

[–] shani66@ani.social 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Inhumanity, by way of a new body. The human body is genuinely just awful and I'd love to have something better.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I think I'd quite like to be a free-floating cloud of quantum dots.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

The vacant lot west of my house.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Proficiency in Ancient Greek, Avestan, Hittite, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit, and Tocharian A.

Yes, this can be developed with enough time and effort, but I'm no elf to live a millennium and resources for those languages are awful to find.

[–] mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Sodalicious fruit snacks.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t Tocharian B be better?

With A you could read mostly Buddhist scriptures that already exist in other languages, but with B you could read more historically-relevant secular works.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Frankly I'd be a happy camper with either. My focus isn't too much on what those languages were used for, but on Proto-Indo-European reconstruction; having more points of reference is always useful.

(That said you're right that Toch. B would be better - it seems to be more conservative. I thought that it was the opposite.)

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

All the birth control companies.

And then give it away for free.

[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd buy more money, obviously.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Cryptocurrency scammers have entered the chat.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

I guess I only need to get rid of my student debt, buy a house, a car that doesn't break down, then I'll buy some friends, I'll buy a nice paying job with a career in my field of expertise and I'll grab some charisma and friend making skills at the checkout

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

A nice piece of land and design my own house to build there

[–] Beneath_the_storm@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I'd buy all my time and my kids', so I could spend their entire childhood with them.

[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

All the politicians, judges, etc. in the entire world

Then maybe some reforms could get done and the world can be better and less corruptable >.>

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 6 points 3 months ago

Freedom from the voluntary prison that my memories keep me in. That or a best friend or something. Either of which kinda cancel themselves out since they had to be purchased :/

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Congress and the Supreme Court so I could once and for all make it so I’m the last one who ever does.

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago

the "means of production" -- according to a dragon in a web comic i read.

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[–] norimee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Keeping living space clean at all times

This is exactly what im struggling with.

I'd buy houskeeping services for the next few decades. A person or company who tidies and cleans my space, does the laundry, the grocery shopping and cooks healthy non processed meals.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Realistically, a house. However what I really want is to be able to speak every language. There is so much knowledge out there that I cant know without imperfect translation and even then it is still imperfect.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A boat's a boat, but a mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat! I'll take the box.

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[–] finley@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago
[–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

All the politicians in my country.

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago

I'd buy the assets of the wealthy and redistribute it to the poor.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I would buy a country and make it a better world than the rest of the world currently is.

[–] AsakuraMao@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Futanari maid service

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

absolute anarchy

[–] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A private island

And only a trusted few would be allowed on it.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I've seen this one before...

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

One million dollars.

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