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.
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.
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.
You can guarantee that she won’t be born
Wholesome take
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
Easy. Bitcoin.
Yeah, get into Bitcoin at the peak investment age of ten.
Edit: JFC y’all, I’m middle-aged.
Have you tried being older? Bitcoin would be a 21+ problem for me!
- Zoom and GameStop stock.
Where is your initial capital coming from. Less than 100,000 will not get you to 10 mil, even mining at an early age requires either wealthy parents or venture capital.
Running a digital farm takes money. Something you clearly haven’t thought out.
Early mining required a mid-tier gaming PC, the kind you could finance with a paper route
Think of all the time that you could waste again!
You become 6 again, but it’s still 2024 and you really freak out your parents. No getting to know the future.
No way I’m going through childhood again. Mine sucked.
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.
For $10M, I might just retire, buy a house and raise my kid.
Sure beats having to struggle at work.
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.
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
That’s a brilliant way to answer.
Reminds me of the plot to Shrek 4, where he has to find Fiona and get her to fall in love all over again.
That was my thought too. Too risky.
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.
what if you didnt restart life in the current time but went back in time when you were 6?
Still a massive chance I would never meet my partner.
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.
My exact thoughts. Give me this choice at 19 or 20, sure I’ll restart. Now though, the money would just be nice to provide security to the most valuable thing - my girls.
Any point in time before my body broke down and a chance to not get through the troubles I had in my twenties? The ability to build neuronal structures like a child instead of learning anew profession in my thirties? Hell, I’m not gonna say no to that.
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.
Easy. Blue. No way am I doing this shit again.
Best comment 😂
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.
That is a good answer bud. I totally relate
Red pill. You can make money, but you can’t make time.
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.
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
I’m putting my allowance into msft and amazon.
See also dogecoin and bitcoin
I bought some bitcoin at 70, but it was for grey market narcotics. The fraction of a dollar left turned into 20 twice lol
Bitcoin, damn… my dad hat a friend mining “a few” on his balcony. He is probably rich right now
That depends on if you want time
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?
Becoming some random six-year-old would be pretty jarring
Yea, or do I become me as a six year old in the modern day?
If it was a monkey paw type of situation you’d probably become a six year old child in pre-historic times.
You become a 6 year old in the present, and you spawn at Point Nemo.
Monkey paw is supposed to suck, not be instant death
You could get a lot more for buying $20 of BTC in 2010 and selling it in November 2021.
With the red pill, the blue pill is redundant.
Imagine all the sweet sweet bitcoin that you’ll sell to invest in Gamestop stock at just the right time.
I’d probably make the first money on Apple. Maybe on the up part of the dot com bubble.
Betting on elections too.
People looking at your history would notice your exceptional luck
I wonder if the effort to make money would break some of the big moving companies, prevent Bitcoin
Gotta remember to big short 2007
It’s just a question of whether or not you want to repeat, for many that’s a solid no
Wait like restart as in go back in time to the year I was 6 or restart as in become a 6 year old in 2024. Because if it’s the former hell yeah stocks, bitcoin, sports betting back to the future style. If it’s the latter fuck that.
Even if 2024, think how much smarter and further ahead of your peers you’d be:
- you’re now at the head of the class
- you job hunt, network, save like a pro
- you’re the most mature person in the room
- you get to live like a young person again (something I’d pay a lot to do)
Downsides: never meet my partner and kids, gotta do the whole no-income thing again for a while
Given the world’s current political and environmental state. I’m not sure it’ll be around in 10 years except maybe in a mad max form.
Plus who would be your parents? You’d have to be interested with a current one. That’s a huge risk, also.
I’m thinking the situation would be, you would be reverting to 6 year old you in 2024, living with your spouse and kids… at that point I think I would be fine
That indeed is an important question. You can surpass the 10mm offering. Having your cake and eating it too.
Asking the right questions. People in here could be in for a rude awakening. Morpheus never said anything about time travel.
WYR have $10M or be a 6 year old undocumented orphan, unrecognised by everyone you knew
It’s clearly go back in time
The choice is
- $10M cash right now; or
- Practically infinite money, but you have to relive childhood
There are pros and cons. First of all, let’s assume you go back to the year you were 6 instead of becoming a 6 year old in 2024 (oof). Being an adult in a child’s mind, you could basically be a demi-God. You could pick stocks, pick world series winners, and even pick winning lottery numbers if you had that type of thing written down. You would also have your emotional development that you have right now. You would be seen as a wise sage-like golden child. Downside is, if you are used to having a sex life, well, kiss that good bye for at least 12 years. Another downside is living through the period of time when you’re going through puberty or have to live with an abusive relative because you’re a minor and can’t do shit.
I think, all said and done, I’ll just take the 10 mil.
Assuming I’m back to 6 years old in 1980, there’s no guarantee stocks, bitcoin, lottery, etc. would have the same outcome. Alternative timeline, so many variables. No thanks.
Alternatively, 6 years old in 2024. Nope.
Blue pill, please.
for at least 12 years
Were you never a young teen?
Having an adult mind in a teen body and having sex with a real teen is super messed up, and any adult willing to have sex with a child isn’t someone you want to have sex with in the first place.
So unless you would share your unique circumstances with an adult, and they wholeheartedly believe you, it can’t work without being really bad.
Who said adult mind? You have your current knowledge, you’ll still have an unfinished 6 year old brain, then a hormone driven teen brain
What’s knowing the next three presidents got to do with it?
As a 6YO, you will have zero sex drive. You may have thoughts and memories, but no desire. You’ll have to wait for hormones to kick in. We see this a lot in postmenopausal women. Zero sexual desire when the hormone factory shuts down.
I wasn’t talking about being sexually active at 6, that’s obviously impossible… I was commenting about the whole “no sex until 18”. You’d have teenager hormones, but it would be really messed up to have an adult in a teens’s body having sex with an actual teen.
I’m taking the money, I don’t want to be a child again.
Red pill.
While I could retire right now with the blue pill, I wouldn’t be happy.
Red pill means I could spend more time and cultivate a better relationships with the people who actually matter to me. I’d spend a lot more time with my great grandparents.
I could also focus on being true to who I am and not being who I thought others wanted. Basically be who I was in college… But now at 6.
Of course, I could make all the right investments to make a lot of money.
I wouldn’t want to just go into the same career. While I might for a while, honestly I’d have the knowledge and money to take a run at a political career.
Also get your preferred user name on every online service created after you turned 6
I hadn’t thought of that, but it’s genius.
I’m not sure if people here realize this, but the interest from $10m is approximately four to eight hundred thousand dollars per year.
So, with ten million, one could instantly retire and never ever have to work again.
That’s priceless freedom to me, and it wouldn’t require deleting almost all of my friends, relationships, experiences, and who I am.
