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If you would be ported back to the Hadean age but have to wait.... (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Grogon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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... all the time to come to earth but you arrive as a billionaire would you do it?

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[-] Nemo@midwest.social 19 points 8 months ago

what

[-] Grogon@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you had the choice to be a billionaire if you go back a few million years in earths age but have to wait it out til you reach the age of humans. Would you do it and wait?

Practically you already waited all that time but you weren't aware of it. Now imagine having to watch it.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

… what?

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think they're saying two things. 1) You have to live for a few million years in the past in order to get a billion dollars when you reach the present age. 2) You can't just go to sleep for a long time to get out of the scenario.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I don’t think that’s what they’re saying.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

What am I doing for this time? Am I fixed in place, unable to move and communicate? Do I have an interesting view? Of what? Do I have my current sense of self and identity?

What happens when I get back to now? What about everyone I knew? Do they still exist? What happens to my stuff? Was I never around to buy it in the first place?

And what kind of billionaire? Like I’m sitting on a pile of $1,000,000,000 worth of precious metals? Or a bunch of less liquid assets like stock?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 8 months ago

Hell yeah, I want to watch history play out!

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You’d die of disease within the first millennia at best.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 8 months ago

Well, I'm working on the assumption that my survival is magically guaranteed.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

I'm going to say no. Most of human history is nasty, brutish, and short.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The Hadean ended 4.031 billion years ago, so I would "earn" 1/4 Dollar (or whatever currency) per year?

Even with just waiting and not having to survive/eat during that time it would be a pretty bad deal...

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Man, the causality of that is rough.

But I can't imagine wanting to live to a hundred, much less that kind of time span.

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