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Psychman3000, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

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.

Lommy,

That is a good answer bud. I totally relate

darth_tiktaalik, to memes in Which pill do you choose?
@darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml avatar

Pro gamee move: Start with red pill, take blue pill when you get back to the point in time where the choice is offered

veni_vedi_veni,

Blue pill is irrelevant. You already rich if you can convince family to buy stocks.

psud,

If I were to go back to 1983 I don’t think I’d care about 10M

velox_vulnus, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

I wish I could be a child again. All I can think of right now I killing myself.

Yerbouti, (edited )

Not sur if you’re joking but anyway take it easy bud. Things get better over time, dont let bad things and people get the best of you, they are not worth it.

CurlyMoustache,
@CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world avatar

Then take both pills: 6 years old and a millionarie

MrFunnyMoustache,

Please don’t kill yourself… I don’t know where you’re from, but most countries have a hotline where you can talk to someone who can help you.

bufalo1973, to memes in Which pill do you choose?
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

Red pill 100%

Omega_Haxors, (edited ) to memes in Which pill do you choose?

10 million cash instantly would get you killed so fast, just look at ANY article about lottery winners getting their life just absolutely fucked up. Resetting at 6 would suck too but at least you would get something out of it.

WetBeardHairs,

It’s not so hard to put it in the bank and hire a wealth management firm. They’ll take care of you and tell you how much you can spend each year without losing money. It’d turn into a free $500k salary for life.

Omega_Haxors, (edited )

It really isn’t that easy but you are on the right path. First thing you have to do is convert it into a form that nobody is able to withdraw quickly. That removes all almost all incentive for greedy/desperate people to try and kill you for it. Good luck doing that with 10M in cash, though. Large volumes of money are nowhere near as mobile as you think it is.

WetBeardHairs,

That’s why I said go to a wealth management firm. Even relatively small firms routinely handle hundreds of millions.

iAvicenna, (edited ) to memes in Which pill do you choose?
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

Easily red if restart means go back to the year when I was six. If be 6 years old now, fuck no.

Corgana, to risa in These Tsunkatse matches are getting out of hand
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

Why doesn’t this have a million upvotes

USSBurritoTruck,
@USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website avatar

Because I’m not willing to pay for upvotes.

gizmonicus, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

Red pill. You can make money, but you can’t make time.

PsychedSy,

I’m putting my allowance into msft and amazon.

Jeremyward,

See also dogecoin and bitcoin

Pantherina,

Bitcoin, damn… my dad hat a friend mining “a few” on his balcony. He is probably rich right now

PsychedSy,

I bought some bitcoin at 70, but it was for grey market narcotics. The fraction of a dollar left turned into 20 twice lol

BunEnjoyer,

That depends on if you want time

GoodEye8,

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.

psud,

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

Cowbee, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

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.

LaLuzDelSol,

Reminds me of the plot to Shrek 4, where he has to find Fiona and get her to fall in love all over again.

cactusupyourbutt,

what if you didnt restart life in the current time but went back in time when you were 6?

Cowbee,

Still a massive chance I would never meet my partner.

fatboy93,

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

Sure beats having to struggle at work.

Cowbee,

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.

psud, (edited )

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

ChewTiger,

That’s a brilliant way to answer.

Sekrayray,

That was my thought too. Too risky.

JackbyDev,

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.

Pantherina, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

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.

LaLuzDelSol, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

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.

DumbAceDragon, to memes in Which pill do you choose?
@DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works avatar

Red pill, because it’ll eventually take me back to this moment and then I’ll pick the blue pill.

Demuniac,

You would not need the blue pill at that point. Just invest in Google and Microsoft and get some early bitcoin

ziixe,
@ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Except not since you would have to replicate your current life to the smallest thing imaginable, and if you didn’t it would cause a butterfly effect meaning you probably wouldn’t get this opportunity anymore

acutfjg,

That’s assuming your have to fall into specific parameters to get this offer.

psud,

They just need to not be critical to the creation of lemmy

kzhe, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

Red is too much effort. Blue

Mango, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

Red. Maybe I can stop my mom from being terrible. Also Bitcoin. Also holo first edition Charizard! Also I wanna be in the Fallador massacre on RuneScape! Also I’ll get Internet famous!

StrayingTimbuktu,

I’ll be Lee-roy Jen-kins!!

Mango,

Noooooo, you totally couldn’t do it better and planning it could mess it all up!

remotedev,

Wasn’t it already staged?

Mango,

WHAT.

highfiveconnoisseur, to memes in Which pill do you choose?

Are we talking $10 M pre or post tax?

Post tax, $10M 100%. Not having to work and retiring immediately would be amazing.

I do like the recursive option of the red pill. Do a few loops and find the optimal path.

DrMango,

400 iq play is getting to the red pill multiple times and then taking the blue pill once you’re satisfied with your path. Catch me on NG+10 taking the blue pill

Eww,

Taking the red pill doesn’t guarantee you’d end up with the same opportunity. If I knew I would be able to return to the same moment where I could take the pill again I’d obviously do that, but probability is slim.

psud,

There’s no way you could follow the same path. There are too many narrow chances. I would start again just for the chance to not fuck up my health for 40 years. I feel like the cost would be many of my friends

lud,

Would you really want to live that long?

Let’s say I was 40, no fucking way would I reset and reset and reset.

I assume that you have to reach the same age you first got the pills at. So just 3 resets would be 160 years (+ around 40 more if you stop resetting and die at the average age of death in western countries)

Personally that sounds like torture. Sure groundhog day was fun the first few times but 160 years? No thanks.

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