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[–] Lauchs 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Blue pill all day. I'd never give up my daughter and we could spend the rest of our lives vacationing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you take the red pill, relive your life up to this point, and then take the red pill again, that’s kinda like a groundhog-day-ish immortality lifehack

Wouldn’t be great, but it’s an option

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[–] Olhonestjim 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's go relive that childhood trauma! It sure would be interesting trying to raise my parents into functional adults at that age. I wonder if they'd give me an exorcism?

Nah, I don't have to wonder.

[–] PhilMcGraw 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Red pill. Would save so much more in childhood trauma and that's priceless.

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[–] jordanlund 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] GrammatonCleric 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It also does not say about a location in space. So it might be Venus.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowledge respawn, easily. 10M is chump change compared to what you could make just diamond handing two pizzas worth of BTC in 2010

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[–] MTK 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] psud 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Back when I was 6, in 1983, my uncle who worked in the oil industry told me about global warming.

I could totally have been a real radical environmentalist, but I was 6.

A second time around that talk would have an impact, and with some foresight for the next 40 years. I think no one would be surprised if I devoted everything to fixing global warming - they might be surprised at my success in the stock market.

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[–] psud 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

These "would you rather" memes are mind poison when both sides are impossible fantasies

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[–] What083329420 6 points 1 year ago

Gimme the money, I'm counting down the years I dont want any extra xD

[–] LaLuzDelSol 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] SomeGuy69 6 points 1 year ago

With six it would give me the opportunity to move to my dad and spare me 6 more years of torture and violence. I'd take that even over 100 billion.

[–] normalexit 6 points 1 year ago

I'd like to go back with my memories, but might run into some sort of time cop situation. It's a tough call.

[–] GaMEChld 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Blue pill. I'm young enough (37) that I'd lose far more than I'd gain if I chose Red. The knowledge I currently possess can change the world with 10 million.

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[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Red pill. My dumbass thinks I could "fix" the people that fucked up my childhood with the knowledge I have now

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