highfiveconnoisseur,

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.

Sekrayray,

Taking the red pill operates under the assumption that you’ll actually survive to this point in your life again. Maybe you were one second away from dying in a car accident at several points, and taking that red pill will lead to a series of events that causes your death.

sus, (edited )

If you look at the usa, less than 0.5% of children die between the ages of 6 and 18. The least likely age for you to die is 8-9 years old, and from about 12 and up the death chance increases pretty rapidly. A 30 year old is already about twice as likely to die as a 19 year old…

so for most people this won’t apply. If you survived abusive or negligent parents though, maybe it’s different

drdiddlybadger,
@drdiddlybadger@pawb.social avatar

This is the thing for me. I have had too many near misses that aren’t even spectacular. I don’t know if I could survive the dice roll again like that.

psud, (edited )

Yep. Red pill here. I had an easy early life. My parents loved me, school was fun and I was good at it

My town has few dangerous car accidents

I could keep all my Lego manuals, not let my sister cut the red space men’s helmets into red hair

I was 6 in the 80s

I probably couldn’t stop my sister

Demuniac,

You could also die tomorrow and the red pill could save you.

lud,

I feel like the blue pill is more likely to save you. Especially in countries with bad healthcare.

Demuniac,

Depending on how old you are there are so many investments that get you far over that 10 mil, but yes healthcare is a really valid point for taking the blue pill

lud,

I really don’t feel there is a need for more money. 100 million is a fuck ton of money.

Demuniac,

Sure, but the image says 10 mil.

lud,

Sorry, I was thinking in my converted currency.

10 million USD is still a LOT of money.

kuberoot,

By the same logic, you might be seconds away from dying if you take the blue pill, I don’t think that’s a great argument alone. It’s more a trade of time, letting you try to fix any regrets, relive the frivolous times, and buying yourself extra time, at the cost of having to go through dependent days again.

Does it increase your chance of dying before you can enjoy your reward? Sure.

Does it also increase the amount of time you get to enjoy it, on average? I’d imagine yes.

Olhonestjim, (edited )

Let’s go relive that childhood trauma! It sure would be interesting trying to raise my parents into functional adults at that age. I wonder if they’d give me an exorcism?

Nah, I don’t have to wonder.

butt_mountain_69420,

Easy. Blue. No way am I doing this shit again.

bradboimler,
@bradboimler@startrek.website avatar

Best comment 😂

Squirrel,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

Blue. If I take the red pill, I’ll end up in a mental hospital.

JokeDeity,

Red for sure, I could have way more than 10 million starting over with all the knowledge I have now, plus I wouldn’t wait so long for certain things.

thmnwlf,

yea but 10m is enough for a way more than decent life, i would say a pretty nice one and you don’t have to do all that shit again ^^

MedicPigBabySaver,

Blue. I’m pretty solid at the moment. I’m sure I’d lose my son if I started over at 6. So, definitely blue.

IDriveWhileTired,

Thought the same. 10 Mil and having the people I love in my life is enough. Just don’t forget to wire the 10 Mil.

MrFunnyMoustache,

While blue is the easy and tempting option, and I would live comfortably without needing to work ever again…

I would choose red. Considering I am approaching 40, and going by family history, I’ll likely get cancer in my 50’s or 60’s… I think choosing red is a good solution to basically get extra 30+ years of life.

Also, with the forenowledge, there is a huge potential for life saving actions. While I don’t think there is much I could do as a kid, it’s worth a shot and I would have time to figure it out.

Tikiporch,

No amount of money can ever buy you more time. Only a six year old should take the blue pill. That’s the moral of the story? I don’t know, it’s just a meme I guess.

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Some people have fucked up childhoods and reliving them isn’t an option. I would take the money, I would never go back to that hell willingly.

psud,

You could run away, roll the dice on the foster system

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Some countries don’t have a robust foster system or a system at all. I would be rolling the die on homeless in the street in a dangerous place with dirt and flagstone roads.

BunEnjoyer,

Yeah no thanks, I’d rather not be bored for 2 decades again, without the fun of thinking like a child.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

I think choosing red is a good solution to basically get extra 30+ years of life.

Hell, do the right things to receive the same offer in 30 years and you can take another red pill. Infinite loop!

MrFunnyMoustache,

Without knowing the conditions of recieving that offer, I wouldn’t bank on being able to replicate it. You’d think whoever has the technology/magic to yeet your consciousness back in time into your 6 year old self without a time paradox would be smart enough to think of that infinite loop thing and avoid that.

But it would be an interesting way to achieve pseudo-immortality.

psud, (edited )

Or perhaps if the red pill is turn six today variant that pessimists think it might be, you might get actual immortality. Say we work out immortality in 2060, that might be difficult for someone 50 today, but easy to reach for someone 6 today.

Souroak,

Could you imagine the psychological damage of having your adult mind shoved back into your 6 year old self? You’d be unable to relate to or even tolerate any of your peers, so say goodbye to any childhood friendships. You’d be unstimulated by the mountain of busy work in school and frustrated by all the topics you’d have to relearn. I personally would go through all of the procrastination troubles again. There are plenty of traumatic events that you would not be able to prevent or even affect. Nevermind that you are still carrying that trauma with you, you’re just trying to not re-live it. Develop any chronic illnesses? Maybe you can get treated quicker but you still have to watch your health decline. It’ll be a decade before you have any kind of autonomy to do any stocks or Bitcoin type stuff, unless you want to become some prophetic wünderkind. As far as I’m aware, mt gox was one of the only reliable places to get Bitcoin, until it wasn’t. I don’t know the day that it fell apart off the top of my head.

I never understand why anyone would choose the “do it all over again” scenarios.

TehBamski,
@TehBamski@lemmy.world avatar

I never understand why anyone would choose the “do it all over again” scenarios.

The consensus seems to be for money, power, or pleasure.

CaptPretentious,

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.

psud, (edited )

Also get your preferred user name on every online service created after you turned 6

CaptPretentious,

I hadn’t thought of that, but it’s genius.

craigers,
@craigers@lemmy.world avatar

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.

aceshigh,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

That indeed is an important question. You can surpass the 10mm offering. Having your cake and eating it too.

triclops6,

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

Crashumbc,

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.

Pantsdance,

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

psud, (edited )

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

  1. $10M cash right now; or
  2. Practically infinite money, but you have to relive childhood
AgentGrimstone,

Asking the right questions. People in here could be in for a rude awakening. Morpheus never said anything about time travel.

jagungal,

Blue. I wouldn’t change much about my life rn, but an extra 10mil would be awesome.

ClockNimble,

Red.

ShaggySnacks,

Fuck binary choices. I’m taking both. Radical free will baby!

psud,

Taking them in the best order will be hard since the blue pill or its 10M would be left in the old timeline - or if there’s only one timeline, left in the lost future

You could take the blue pill and live it up for however long, try not to die suddenly, then take the red pill. That sounds risky to me

Interesting_Test_814,

Blue pill, redoing school and all for years before getting any further in your life would be way too boring

Kiosade,

Maybe that’s the secret behind those kids that graduate college at 13 or whatever. They’re playing life on (partial) New Game + mode.

jasondj,

It’s like loading a save file from a couple months before you beat the game.

BunEnjoyer,

Right?! Worst years of our lives are spent waiting in glorified daycare till we are 18.

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