• @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    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 😉

    • Punkie
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      671 year ago

      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.

      • @MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
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        251 year ago

        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

      • Rhynoplaz
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        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?

          • @adhocfungus@midwest.social
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            151 year ago

            I was gonna say the same. If I had to go back the only change I would make is avoiding the cops, school councilors, relatives, and judges I thought I could trust. Every attempt we made to get away from our mom made the beatings worse.

            • Rhynoplaz
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              Thanks for sharing. I never went through anything like that, and it really says a lot that even with an adult mind, you wouldn’t know what you could do or want to risk trying. Hope you’re doing well now.

          • @Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            Might be different because my abuse was psychological and covert sexual rather than physical. But for me, the inner boundaries I’ve learned through therapy would make a world of a difference.

    • @gnate@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      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.

    • @Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world
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      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.

  • @edinbruh@feddit.it
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    831 year ago

    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

  • @darkpanda@lemmy.ca
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    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.

    • Sockenklaus
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      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.

    • volvoxvsmarla
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      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.

  • capital
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    511 year ago

    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.

    • @Razzazzika@lemm.ee
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      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

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        It doesn’t matter how young or old anyone is. Living another 12 years as a child is not worth any amount of money.

        Unless you really love the idea of going thru K-8 and then highschool again as an adult in a kids body…

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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          Unless you really love the idea of going thru K-8 and then highschool again as an adult in a kids body…

          But you know so much now, exams would be a piece of cake.

        • @psud@lemmy.world
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          With adult knowledge, but your brain would be your age. You’d have the kid ability to learn. Become fluent in another language if you want

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            Yes, I’m aware of what we were talking about.

            You don’t need to be a child to learn another language.

  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    371 year ago

    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.

    • fatboy93
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      101 year ago

      For $10M, I might just retire, buy a house and raise my kid.

      Sure beats having to struggle at work.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        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.

        • @psud@lemmy.world
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          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

  • Trollivier
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    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.

    • R0cket_M00se
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      01 year ago

      Exactly, if you make changes to things you wish you’d done differently, you could drastically alter your life enough to where you’d be in unknown territory rather quickly.

      Sure you’d still have the “dump savings into Bitcoin, sell in September 2020” thing that would make you richer than the blue pill ever could, but the mistakes we make are the biggest reason to relive the past and once you alter those you’d quicky change the course of your life.

    • @GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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      51 year ago

      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.

      • @psud@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Clear outcome? If red is “become undocumented child in 2023” blue can’t be simple.

        Blue would have you watching over your shoulder for who the money was taken from, or the money would be taken off you as evidence of crime, since no one has millions from nowhere, and it’ll be very hard to hide

  • @Psychman3000@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • @foggy@lemmy.world
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    231 year ago

    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.

      • @foggy@lemmy.world
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        I think you’re mistaking how little would need to be invested.

        I think my dad would start listening to his god-omen stock predicting son after a few missed billions.

        “Dad listen, my college tuition? Fuck it. Put it down on Bitcoin in Jan of 2009 and sell on November 9th 2021 for ~$25T.”

        I’d have over 10 trillion cash after taxes. Literally would have more cash than anyone on earth.

        • dream_weasel
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          81 year ago

          I mean yes if you could sell out. That transfer crashes the coin I bet and may have had negative consequences to your ability to cash out.

  • Doubletwist
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    231 year ago

    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 .