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WTB Time Machine Ticket
MrMonroe
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Assume you have one (1) single-use ticket for a time machine that uses Quantum Science to transport your consciousness and all your memories back in time to your own body on the day you turned 18. No ironic twilight zone shit, it works the way it's supposed to. There will never be another ticket.
What is the least I would have to pay to buy that ticket off you? You get the money today, in the present.
What is the least I would have to pay to buy that ticket off you? You get the money today, in the present.
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WTB Time Machine Ticket 64 votes
<$100
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<$10,000
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<$1,000,000
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<$100,000,000
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<$10,000,000,000
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6 votes
<$1,000,000,000,000
10%
7 votes
"i'll only do it if you solve climate change" or some other hippy nonsense
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Or does your younger self get sent to your present in the current timeline
Or are you cursed to reach the same future again and use the time machine again, reliving those years over and over and unable to change anything?
Branching timeline I guess? You can make different choices and affect the world differently but your younger self goes about their business right up until they (you) decide(d) (or don't)(didn't) to get in the machine.
Once your consciousness goes through the machine once it can't go again, because of Quantum Science Rules.
you have picked a larger number than that
Yeah there's probably some things that would be nice to change but I've learned from the final season of Felicity despite never seeing it okay
(Also in general I guess I'm fine with where I wound up, so the only reason to go back would be to buy a winning lottery ticket)
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That plus an extra lifetime.
So enough money that when faced with trying to remember all the future info I don't bother.
But if I'm being honest, I'd probably just wind up right back here again.
So I'll take the money.
Or at least rule a small part of a small town. Like a little building or something that I’ve stocked a few subservient into.
Yeah right.
Like I should trust you.
I can't be arsed to live my life all over again, I'll just get decision paralysis about whether I should do the same thing or try and improve things
It was the most stressful thing I have ever experienced as I was constantly wracking my brain trying to remember every single decision that brought me to this point. One false move and what basically amounts to my entire being is gone so it wasn't relaxing or enjoyable at all.
I'll take $5. Go have fun with it. Leave me out of it
Just Groundhog day it up, and continuously hunt down the ticket man.
Everything is ethical when your actions are impermanent.
I mean, I guess you try to avoid being killed or bring incarcerated or otherwise detained so that you don't miss the ticket on that iteration.
Unless it's the final go through
But absolutely don't trust this person trying to buy the ticket from you; you absolutely can keep looping as long as you get the ticket again.
And now you’re sick because the host used too small a slice and left a big mud pie.
I got my eye on you
Give me your time ticket Charlie
I'm 36.
Only gotta make it another 30 years as a middle aged white dude who already got the smallpox vaccine.
I can 100% conman my way to killing Hitler.
That or set up a Speedwagon type organization dedicated to killing Hitler.
...
Fuck. My actions are gonna be what get Hitler where he did, aren't they?
also the fuck do I need your money for, I'mma go back and invest in google or something like that
pretty sure going back is the right choice
I mean yeah.
This is like the one thing that the first go-around of changing nothing and seeing if the ticket works a second time, risks.
The main problem is having to go that far back in tech. No smartphones? Internet speeds like dogshit?
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I don't have kids, and I know when I met my wife and I'm pretty sure being me still but also rich would make that easier.
but if there was some rule in place to prevent me from profiting off this, I'm fine with a million bucks. I've made a few mistakes here and there but overall I'm fine with where I'm at.
By the way, I'm assuming this person going back in time won't affect my current timeline in any way, since that's the only way them paying me in the present has any worth. If them going back affects my present then if I retain knowledge of the current timeline would change how much I'd sell it for. If it changes the timeline so I'm none the wiser, I'm not gonna sell it . If it changes the timeline but I get to retain knowledge of the previous timeline, including the deal I made with this person, then the deal I would make would have them paying me in the new timeline. In that case it'd be at least $100 million, which would be enough to live for the rest of my life with what's essentially $1 million annual salary and hopefully counteracts any changes to my life caused by the timeline shift. And if they didn't honor their side of the deal despite easily being able to (e.g. they're rich and famous in their new timeline) I would definitely go after them to try and get mine.
So the real question is—and I suspect others have pointed this out—is how badly do you want to do it? Even though I don't really want to do it, I suspect there are plenty of people that would. So my answer is "I'll sell it for what the highest bidder is willing to pay for it?"
Then again, I just realized that I could pull a "Biff from Back to the Future" and just become the world's most accurate sports better, in which case this ticket is literally priceless and I would probably never have to work a day again in my life. So...