just thought of something else, childhood would suck as an adult. stuff like not being able to walk or talk or run or poop. i'm sure that would make people go insane. also considering we all have adult tastes, it would be legit a problem having our tastes and being a kid. i doubt many parents want their 5 year old listening to the misfits or worse. plus the constant stimulation we all have means all of us would be bored if we went back to the days of dial-up. i highly doubt being over medicated and forced to be around other kids will help our sanity. beyond that, you'll still be looked at weird because you would be a child in college or whatever. from what i'm reading of the kids that went to college under 16, their parents basically were chained to them, so they only got the lecture part of the "college experience" which; while good certainly isn't what people want from it.
also considering how much of live revolved around phones up until the late 2000s, i highly doubt someone with the voice of a 6 year old asking about college will be taken seriously. between that and the lines picking courses was dogshit until pretty recently in the US.
in general regardless of your smarts, your life is practically locked in, "school until 18" "reliant on others to drive until 16" so unless you're living in a major city you're fucked and have to do what your parents and teachers say until 16. it doesn't matter how smart or amazing you are at some sports. best shot you have a custodian account on your investment portfolio.
>You could spend more time with loved ones or pets vefore they passed on.
>You would know what companies to invest in, which ones would go on to become multi-million dollar enterprises.
>You would be aware of major world events before they happened.
I'm sure my new actions on this new timeline would somehow alter a lot of the events of our colective past, starting from the life and death of my loved ones to huge things that may or may not happen because I or my altered loved ones decided not to do something we did in this timeline, you know, butterflies n' shit. So all that would just result in a new timeline in which I don't know much about the distant future, again. Not worth it very much imo.
Anyhow, I'll take my 2 millions and get me some hookers and cocaine (and maybe a car for my mom since she always wanted one) thank you very much.
i mean what world events could you have prevented? unless someone on the farms has a clearance i doubt we could have prevented most major tragedies. beyond that as we saw from Julius Ceasar, some rando going "don't do that!" is going to be just seen as a weird interaction and won't really do anything to prevent most people's deaths. you really think any drug overdose would have been prevented if another asshole told a junkie to stop shooting H?
also sports gambling was only legal in vegas until literally 2020, so betting is out of the question leaving only stocks to invest in and even then, most of them were either known to be the way of the future or only grew a small amount over a long period of time. like microsoft, facebook. even google only averaged 26% ROI*, which is huge but not enough to matter in a year, more like after 30 years. outside of apple/amazon/tesla almost no one was making 1000% ROI, and tesla's IPO was in 2010 so you'd be better off going long on bitcoin by then.
just in general the 2000s was sort of fucked stocks wise. unless you sold everything in 2000 you were fucked and same with 2008, just selling at the right time roughly would net you more money than almost any stock pick besides the 2 i mentioned.
so in general the "get rich quick" thing wouldn't be possible and you'd be left in a holding pattern until 2010.
honestly i highly doubt anyone would refuse to go back 12 years ago, no matter how old you are, thats right in the nostalgia when you were healthier and fitter and things mattered less.
*a 26% ROI sounds great but just betting on the patriots to win outright would net you this much back during the brady days, and mind you thats just one of 16 weeks in a season.
