Are the pills binary? Because I wouldn’t want to rewind to far before either shacking up with, or maybe meeting, my girl. And all the fun things I would wish upon every iteration of myself that I’m doing now are things I’d started with in adulthood.
I’d only really be interested in taking about a third of a red pill, since that’d probably take me back to after I started most of these fun things.
If I’d be required to take whole pills, I’d take the blue one.
Easy blue pill. If I had to redo my teenage years I would have told my ex-wife to fuck off before giving her a chance. Then I wouldn’t have my son and he is literally everything to me. Definitely couldn’t watch my son see his mom leave him again.
Am I transported back to 1993 with all the knowledge I have now? Or am I 6 in 2023? Because the first case it becomes ridiculously easy to make 10 million… Just memorize a single set of lottery numbers for a specific time and date… and have a little knowledge to invest in apple as soon as Steve Jobs returns to the company and Tesla when it’s founded, and at that point you are a billionaire.
Yeah, going back in time is too op. Let’s say you become your 6 year old body with the same memories and mental capacity as you are now. What about now?
Mmm… It depends, if I live in an upper middle or mid middle class or above household I’ll choose going back. I could convince my parents to invest $1000 a month in my future and have 10 million by the time I am the same age I am now. Whilst also knowing what I know about the world, women, life, love and relationships from 6 to 37
I grew up in abject poverty. Going back to 6 just means another 20+ years of struggle and hardship.
10 mill means safety for me and mine for a minimum of 100 years.
Why would I take the option that includes watching friends die of lack of money all over again rather than the one that results in stability for me and mine.
Anyone who says go back to 6 comes from family money.
Blue. Knowing what I know would make me a fucked up 6 year old. I wouldn’t be able to make friends, I would creep people out or even end up in a mental institution. 10 million wold fix all my current problems. And there wold be a lot left for hookers and coke.
Red pill says restart at 6, not go back in time to when you where 6. I assume you will be 6 in the current time and have no future knowledge to convert into cash.
I had a few pretty rough years in there… I wasn’t suffering or anything like that, I was just… Going in the wrong direction. Took me a while to get back on track.
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.
I think people underestimate how much the physical state of your body, ie hormones brain structure etc play in how you make decisions.
When I was a lad I almost always knew I was making the wrong decisions but felt powerless in the moment to stop myself. I also had basically no concept of the future as a real thing that would happen and could be planned for until I was like 27 or so. Like the logical knowing things part of my brain knew the right moves but the doing things me rarely consulted with knowing things me.
Not to mention that kids have a serious lack of control over their own destinies.
I honestly think going back in time with all my memories is one of the worse hells I can imagine. Just doomed to watch myself fuck up in similar ways again and hope that it all works out “OK” this time too.
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