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

      Sure beats having to struggle at work.

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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

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      So true. My wife and I are high school sweet hearts but also both very different people now. The boy she fell in love with initially I couldn’t properly emulate. We were deep into Christianity and even met at church. We’ve since both lost our faith. I wouldn’t be able to pretend without her seeing through my bullshit.

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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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        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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        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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    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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    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?

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      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.

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        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

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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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      The red pill sounds like absolute horror. I’d desperately try to get all the good things in my life back, and probably mess shit up bad.

      Though on the other hand, there are obviously a bunch of “you were a young idiot”-type mistakes that I’d want to undo…

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      It gives you both, but at what cost? If you have a spouse or child, that’s probably not going to happen again in round two. You’re going to make different decisions that take you on a different life path. Even if you made the same decisions, is your significant other actually going to fall in love with you when you’re going on the first date with 10 years of history already? You’re not going to bring that new relationship energy with you and you’re going to seem weird since you already know them so well. Even if you win them over, you won’t have the same kid. The odds of the same sperm finding the same egg are millions to one, possibly even higher since you probably won’t do it on that exact day. What about all your lifelong friends? Are you actually going to form meaningful relationships at 6 or 10 years old when you have the mind of a 30 year old, or whatever you are by that time? Probably not. I think the cost to go back would be very high.

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      Except it doesn’t specify that you go back in time to when you were 6 years old, but that you “restart your life at 6 years of age” so a fairly reasonable interpretation would be that you’ll be a 6 year old in 2024. Monkeys paw and all that.

      Now, I personally think it’s more interesting if it did mean that you went back in time.

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        Thats actually even better than just restarting. I already want to make it to 120 to see what 3 different centuries looks so this would make that unrealistic goal so much more accomplishable. Also i will have an idea of what medical things im going to look into and see what options i would have as a kid today vs 40+ years ago

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          Totally agree. 10 million dollars will never buy me those years back. With remote work I could probably make enough of a living to get by until I age back into adulthood. At the age of 6 I’d have a higher brain plasticity, so I literally could get smarter faster only this time I could direct all of my potential into something a little more useful then just learning how the world works. With modest investing I could easily get to 10 mil by the time I’m at my current age just due to compound interest.

          And lastly I could easily reach 120, and with medical advancement who knows!

          The more I think about it, being six years old again really wouldn’t be that bad at all.

          Edit: Assuming I’m still me but only younger, it’s not like I’d have to go back to school again as I already have diplomas proving I’ve done that before. So I could probably just tell any potential employees that I have dwarfism until I age back up. With the right clothes, hair, and possibly a little makeup (to make me look older than 6), the second I open my mouth no one would believe I’m six and would assume I have some kind of congenital disease.

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        I’d worry about the bad side of the $10M if it’s monkey paw.

        Anyway I want to see the sea level rise chaos. So no down side

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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.