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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 😉

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      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.

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        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

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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?

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            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.

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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.

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            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.

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        My childhood also sucked, but I’d go back.

        My parents weren’t monsters, they were flawed people doing what they thought was best… If I could go back and clearly assert myself and my needs? Especially with what I know now?

        I’d take that deal.

        Not too mention, I’m a programmer. I know every major advancement we’ve made in the past decades…If I designed a language in the early 00’s, I would be worshipped by all programmers. I could’ve made Uber when the iphone launched, and never took a dime in investments. I’d also jump forward AI tech by a couple decades - I could make the world unrecognizable. I’d be a household name, although I’d probably use a pseudonym

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      10 mil is definitely easier, but if you memorized important global events and stock market crashes or explosions you could potentially build an empire. 10 mil would be chump change at that point. You could potentially maneuver yourself into positions of extreme power and help to shape the world, possibly change it for the better in the process.

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        True, but in this case I’d only be six years old. I’d be too young to really do anything about future events, and anyone who could do something probably wouldn’t listen to a kid warning then about politics and finance. Somehow I feel like by the time I’d be old enough to make any of that information useful I would have either forgotten a lot of it or ceased to care. I might choose differently if I was starting at age like 25 or 30 though

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          Well I would imagine my parents would pay attention to a 6 year old with the intellect and speech capability of a fully grown adult, especially once i tell them I can predict important future events and deliver a couple examples. Then I could ask them to create a trust fund and make it invest according to my foreknowledge. 25 years later and it’s a global empire with controlling shares in all major corporations.

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        but if you memorized important global events and stock market crashes or explosions you could potentially build an empire.

        That is the thing when these kinds of topics appear, I totally would commit the same mistakes all over again, hence a boring childhood (I still think I’d go back though).

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        Gotta somehow get seed money. Even investing your allowance would only get you a couple of thousand. You’re investing doesn’t really pay off until you’re old enough and rich enough to put real money in the game.

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          See my other comment on this. I’m fairly sure I could get my parents to listen, whom would then do the investing for me, with a lot more than just an allowance (kids can’t invest anyway).

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      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.

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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.

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    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

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        Yeah, get into Bitcoin at the peak investment age of ten.

        Edit: JFC y’all, I’m middle-aged.

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          If your family had a PC at that time absolutely. Just wait for the first inklings and start mining. It was way easier at the start. You’d be able to get several thousands pretty easy. Maybe you get some visa gift cards as a kid for Christmas, dump em in there. Or even just go to any store and use your allowance to buy one. Then sell at the peak. EZPZ

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          Yeah, you can do that. Bitcoin is anonymous and you could earn it relatively easy when it first came out. If you want to get real fucked up with it you could make even more by appealing to those early black markets and use your age as a cover, but that’s risk.

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          At the start all you needed was access to any computer. Mine for an hour and come out with some bitcoin

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          At ten you might have a computer that can mine a couple of hundred bit coin

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          Early mining required a mid-tier gaming PC, the kind you could finance with a paper route

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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…

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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.

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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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.

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          The problem with betting on illiquid securities is that it would guarantee a change in that securities future. I’d probably stick with a big ocean of money to invest in like blue chip stocks because you personally aren’t going to change the market and if you have foreknowledge you can still make billions.

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            For something like trying to turn 300k into 25T on Bitcoin, yes, absolutely.

            You could 100% become a trillionaire without significantly affecting market positions, though, even with just general knowledge and ~50 $100-$10,000 investments.

            Compounding interest is a hell of a drug.

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          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.

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        A six year old that can predict major events? Besides. Just wait and invest in Bitcoin yourself or Google, Apple or MS in college depending on your age. The latter isn’t as big of a jump but easily many multiples.

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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.

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    My brain says the blue pill because money.

    My heart says the red pill because I miss my soulmate and would give anything for a chance with her again.

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      The one thing is would you end up with your soul mate again and even if you did it wouldn’t be the same relationship you had back then. I thought about this and have 3 kids and don’t know if I would want to give up on my kids because there’s no way I could say goodbye to my kids and never see them again.

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    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 .

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    With the red pill, do I go back in time to when I was 6 with all of my knowledge or become a different 6 year old now with all of my knowledge?