Back in time too, so if you’re currently 40, you’re heading back to 2005.

  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    1 day ago

    I’d take the knowledge. I’d keep so many good friends alive.

    Plus I’d make it back in awesome zero-day attacks on the financial system, and become a huge Hollywood writer.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Definitely back in time. I’d be just losing my father, so that would be hard. I’d be right about to meet my wife, too, so that would be interesting. It would also be before the iPhone came out, so I could take the small amount my father left me and invest it in AAPL. I don’t know if I could make a million dollars, probably could, but I could make better choices.

    Sports betting (Back to the Future II explored this) would be tempting, but you really don’t want to get into business with bookies. Rather invest in Apple and Bitcoin from back then.

  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    The money. I’m married with an amazing kid, so I’d lose both if I went back.

    On top of that though, we’re doing ok for ourselves, and the money would let us pay off all our bills and debts, and buy the house we like. There would be enough left over to help some of our friends and family who need it too :)

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      2·
      1 day ago

      I thought about that, but state and federal taxes would take anywhere from twenty-few percent, and depending on amount of debt, housing market being run off the rails by investment firms, needing a savings and retirement account… Going back in time may be the more rewarding option, financially and otherwise, depending on personal variables.

      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, that’s a good point. I took it as being a million to spend, but tax would take a big bite, depending on where you are.

        I’m in the UK, so it converts to about £745,000 at the moment. I could buy a nice terraced house that I like for £175,000 and clear my existing mortgage and debts for about £60,000, so would have about half a million to spend. It’s a lot, but wouldn’t go as far as you’d think.

        I’d still keep my kid though 🙂

  • HowlsSophie@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    Money, though 90%+ of it woild go into savings. It would allow me to work less and fuck around with my hobbies more.

    Going back to 2009 means I’d still be in college, with my abusive ex, and working at McDonald’s. Fuck that noise.

  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    I’ll take the million, 2005-2015 was fucking rough for me and no amount of what I know is likely to make a significant impact on that

  • big_slap@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    time is the most valuable commodity in your life, so im going back to half my age.

    the only thing that would suck would be messing everything up that I have going on in life right now, but how could I turn down this opportunity?

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    I’ll take the money. When I first met my wife she was married to someone else and had just had a baby. She was not at all on my radar back then and we hardly interacted with each other. About a decade later we reconnected and by then she was divorced and we really clicked.

    It would be really hard to go back then and have to wait that long. I doubt I’d be able to convince her that she needs to leave her husband early for me based on my knowledge of the future, and I really wouldn’t have been ready to be a dad that young (she’s 6 years older than me), just out of college. If I could that might’ve saved a lot of issues.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    61·
    2 days ago

    The former, I think. A million isn’t really worth much and that value is ever more uncertain; the ability to make decisions with a lot more pertinent information is priceless.

  • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    A million dollars would do more for me than going back in time. I’ve done lots of things I regret, but despite everything I am quite happy where I am right now.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    We had a similar question in a staff meeting this year. The general answer came down to “If you have time, you would pick money. If you have money, you would pick time”

    I’m young(er), with plenty of time, so I would pick money. While the parents with kids out of the house would pick time to spend more time with them.