Choose One

Which would you choose?

  • Go back to being 10yrs old, with all the knowledge you now possess.

    Votes: 12 85.7%

  • Skip ahead 15 year into the future, but you would have $22M in your bank account.

    Votes: 2 14.3%
  • Total voters
    14
I would go back to being 10 years old.  I would start saving all the money I could and invest it in AOL.  Buying in at $12 a share for a grand total of 1520.  Once the stock passed its record high of $90 I would have sold.    $140K roughly in profit would then have then split and invested in WalMart at $8.45 (8,284 shares bought) and Amazon at $18.00 (3,888 shares bought). 

I would have continued to go to school while my investment grew.  April 30th of 2005 I would have sold the Walmart Shares and netted $296,567.20.  I would have turned around and invested it in Google at $54 per share gaining me 5491 shares.  I would have gone and done the same things I did.  Fall in love, lose her.  Hit rock bottom and climb out of the pit and find a new hope and begin to pass it on to others.  Finally on Nov 27th 2017 ($1,056.52) and I would have netted $5,801,351.32 and my amazon investment would have grown to a value of $4,519,216.80 and expected to double within a few years.  Eventually I would sell it all.  Buy a home, spread the gospel full time for free with all of my needs taken care of by my investment.

 
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I would go back to being 10 years old.  I would start saving all the money I could and invest it in AOL.  Buying in at $12 a share for a grand total of 1520.  Once the stock passed its record high of $90 I would have sold.    $140K roughly in profit would then have then split and invested in WalMart at $8.45 (8,284 shares bought) and Amazon at $18.00 (3,888 shares bought). 

I would have continued to go to school while my investment grew.  April 30th of 2005 I would have sold the Walmart Shares and netted $296,567.20.  I would have turned around and invested it in Google at $54 per share gaining me 5491 shares.  I would have gone and done the same things I did.  Fall in love, lose her.  Hit rock bottom and climb out of the pit and find a new hope and begin to pass it on to others.  Finally on Nov 27th 2017 ($1,056.52) and I would have netted $5,801,351.32 and my amazon investment would have grown to a value of $4,519,216.80 and expected to double within a few years.  Eventually I would sell it all.  Buy a home, spread the gospel full time for free with all of my needs taken care of by my investment.
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Unless you going back in time somehow changes the timeline of what's going to happen :smug:

That aside, I have a feeling my parent wouldn't let 10 years old me make major investment into international companies. I'll choose the option anyway so I can cruise through highschool school and end up with better grades, do well in university and just not make as many regretful mistakes as before. Probably going to treat it as more of a second chance in life rather than do trying do to anything to set myself up later to be a millionaire

 
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25 years ago I was ten years old, it was 1992.  Technology wasn't what it is today...  22 million dollars in the year 2032 is not that much in all honesty, I'd be able to have way more than that if I go back to being ten again with my current knowledge level.

 
It could have been $22B and I still would have picked the same option.  

As a 10 yo, you appreciate things in the moment (the toy you have, the sandwich you're eating, the hug from mom).  But as soon as that moment passes, the appreciation does as well.  To be able to go back and appreciate things more, carry more memories into my old age, and have a much more fulfilling life, regardless of money, is far more valuable to me.  

 
I loved being 10 years old however, I would not want to be 10 and knowing I would get kidney failure so fuck that, gib me the money.

 
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