Blue door is a monkey’s paw. You go back in time? You butterfly-effect shit you didn’t intend to.
- Buy a bunch of Bitcoin? A series of unanticipated changes means people figure out it’s a pyramid scheme early and by around 2017 or so, the last Bitcoin miner shuts down. But hey, at least video cards are affordable!
- Bring back Lotto numbers? Well sorry, buddy, but just by breathing the air differently, the air currents where the numbers are drawn are affected, and you’re left with zilch.
- Got kids younger than 10? They don’t exist anymore! If you try to have them again, you end up with other kids who are similar, but not the same as the ones you loved… and have deleted from the timeline.
The answer to these time-travel opportunities is always to run screaming from them. But hey, at least with this one you’ve got an alternative where you become an instant millionaire! Take the $10 million. Don’t fuck the timeline up.
Yeah, the re-do your life idea really gets scary after you have kids. There’s pretty much no way you get them back.
Bonus points, odds are you will have a really hard time re-meeting your partner. You’re probably a totally different person than you were when you met. The chemistry that got you started is now not there and who knows how you mix now. It may still work, but they might be weirded out by how much you know about them.
For both your sakes, the best option may be to never meet.
I’ll take the red door thanks.
My partner and I love this time travel stuff — the truth would be a great pickup line!
The movie About Time deals with this fact. It’s a great movie if you are ok with romcoms
Yeah having acquired a wife and kids in the last decennia really makes this a no brainer.
I mean your wife would likely still be in the picture, just have to win her over again.
Blue Door. One of my greatest mistakes was not buying Bitcoin when it was 100 dollars
I fucking did buy bitcoin when it was pennies, but dumbass past me had a nasal problem and spent it immediately.
Amen. Bought my first Bitcoin with RuneScape GP and immediately blew it all
At least you got some fun out of it. The majority of the BTC I ever owned was on my parents computer that somehow wound up in my aunts hands. She stripped it and sold it all for parts…
I wonder what would be more profitable, buying Bitcoin early, or buying Apple stocks early?
Apple, their stock has split several times
Depends how early, right? First days/months of bitcoin they were trading for fractions of a penny. What’s the ROI from $.0001 to $60,000? And in only 14yrs rather than 40.
ah you’re right, a single apple stock has only going up 5800 dollars in the past 40 years, which really shows you just how insane and unregulated crypto is
I still remember the first time I read about bitcoin and thought to myself “better check this out”.
Only I forgot about it until years after that lol
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As someone upper-class who hangs around rich people: Yes, money solves your problems, and yes, money is a great way to be happy
Red door, I can’t say how much better I would do things if I did them again. But 10 mil can make things much better right now.
Just look up some stocks to buy on the day of your first mistake before you go through the blue door and as a result you can have however much money you feel like is a good amount in future.
Better yet, buy a huge amount of bitcoin and dump it at the height of the 2018 surge. Stocks implies you have a reasonable amount of money to start with, but bitcoin was worth pennies at the beginning.
I was just thinking stocks so you can get the money prior to 2018
Go through blue door to choose red door instead.
This one should be the accepted answer.
Go through the red door and use that money to build a tine machine.
The blue door, because money can’t buy me the time back. It’s priceless.
Also I could just buy BTC at $2 a piece and make the 10 mill as well. So it’s win-win.
I’d even say, im hindsight it was a mistake not to buy bitcoin back then.
It was $2 because most people didn’t know what it was yet.
I strongly considered buying a single bitcoin for $700. I was irrational with money bit it seemed like a good idea. I decided I was being dumb with my money again and didnt go through with it.
It would have been worth it. Even at $700 it would have been worth it.
I was going to buy $100.00 worth back when it was 36 cents. I couldn’t figure out how to buy it and then my car broke down and that was that.
$2? I’d go back to 2012 or whatever and mine it using free electricity in grad school. Hell I’d use their cluster, call the slurm job something like “orbital_freq_prime_factors”
And I’d break up with my college girlfriend
And I’d bring my doctoral dissertation back in time so I didn’t have to write it
Even if the bitcoins didn’t work out, maybe I could buy Pokémon cards for cheap and sell them
Blue door would mean having to relive my childhood years being forced to go to church and Christian school, but without the indoctrination that made it feel like it was a good thing. That would be torture.
Who decides what is a “mistake” and what is “fixed”? I feel like going through the blue door would trap you in some kind of infinite loop
I’ve seen enough of Silicon Valley to know you take the money and run.
Does “not buying Bitcoin for $1” count as a mistake or not?
Doesn’t matter. You would have sold it when it was like $27
I will take 2700% profits please and thanks.
Why worry about the past when you can have a brighter future with an extra 10 million cash?
I don’t have any major regrets worth fixing, even though I’ve made some major mistakes. However, all of my current problems could be solved with $10M. Give me the money
Blue door is essentially erasing your own existence. Why do people even view it as an option? The me that made mistakes created the me today. If I erase those mistakes I wouldn’t exist. Just some other guy with an easy life.
True, true. One of the mistakes however is not buying tech stocks in their infancy, so you’d wind up with way more than 10m.
Time travel way way back to when the first fish crawled on land.
And step on it.
You’re welcome.
Stanley walked through the red door.
