If Silicon Valley taught me anything, take the cash.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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Could you imagine the psychological damage of having your adult mind shoved back into your 6 year old self? You'd be unable to relate to or even tolerate any of your peers, so say goodbye to any childhood friendships. You'd be unstimulated by the mountain of busy work in school and frustrated by all the topics you'd have to relearn. I personally would go through all of the procrastination troubles again. There are plenty of traumatic events that you would not be able to prevent or even affect. Nevermind that you are still carrying that trauma with you, you're just trying to not re-live it. Develop any chronic illnesses? Maybe you can get treated quicker but you still have to watch your health decline. It'll be a decade before you have any kind of autonomy to do any stocks or Bitcoin type stuff, unless you want to become some prophetic wünderkind. As far as I'm aware, mt gox was one of the only reliable places to get Bitcoin, until it wasn't. I don't know the day that it fell apart off the top of my head.
I never understand why anyone would choose the "do it all over again" scenarios.
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I gotta say, the top answer being the 10 million surprised the hell out of me. Especially from someone who's middle aged like myself. I had a pretty bad childhood myself, but the chance to get over 30 years of my life back and the wisdom to make better choices? I'd take that over ten billion dollars, and my life as an adult didn't turn out too bad. No amount of money can buy back your youth. Let alone the possibility of living long enough to see Elder Scrolls VI come out.
Blue. I've made mistakes, but I'm proud of how my life has turned out.
Also knowing about
- 9/11 (investing in detector manifacturers, fucking shampoo in small bottles)
- covid (investing in masks, vaccines, tests and test centers)
- all the wars: weapon industry in Germany
- Apple, Google, Amazon, ...
You could just buy stock and get rich without doing anything. If you made such a company, damn.
I mean investing in that post 9/11 stuff would make you rich, then you lend money to those Covid people and tadaa, Capitalism
Also maybe you could change something in the world, worth more than money.