$1/day is pretty cheap. I've been alive around 12k days. For less than the price of a car, I can erase my own existence. Sounds like a bargain to me!
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A person comes up to you and says, "I can reverse time for just $1 per day." Do you take their offer?
Obviously not, I'd have to be an idiot to fall for this con.
considering i earn more than 1$ a day this is essentially free
Rough question for a guy who just lost his wife at 35. I'd empty my account to be able to have the time over.
I'd go back to around the time my daughter started sleeping through the night. Don't want to risk a reality where my kids don't exist. I'd tell my friend the cancer is coming back, when it's still early enough to do something.
Don't really know what else I'd do. Don't really care. Be nice to live through those years again without changing much else to be totally honest
That's definitely a hard line in this thought experiment for me: the furthest I could possibly go back would be to the day my youngest was born.
I can't intentionally will one of my kids out of existence. And I don't have any enjoyment fantasizing about if I could at any rate.
They’re offering $1 per day? That’s $1 for every 24 hours you go back, which is around $0.04 per hour, which can be broken down even further to around $0.0007 per minute.
I’d give them 1 penny to go back 15 minutes in time, find a penny on the ground, then find them again to go back the same 15 minutes in time over and over until I can figure out how to kidnap them in 15 minutes.
After I successfully kidnap them, I will go on a bank heist and keep the time person near me so I can keep trying to rob a bank until I do so successfully. Then because they’re an accessory to the crime, I can blackmail them to let me rewind time for free at any time I wish so I can become a crime lord, otherwise I’ll give them to the police and let them know he can time-travel.
EDIT: Just saw OP’s one-time offer clause, so I am assuming this means the time person retains their memory.
I won’t immediately take them up on their offer - instead, I would take them out on a date or five first. Get to know them a bit better; where they lived growing up, how they grew up, how old they are - that kind of stuff.
Then I would figure out how much money I can use to go back in time to my youngest point of life that also meets their youngest point in my same lifetime, and I’ll track them down from all the details they gave me while they were pegging me. I’ll become best friends with them, and convince them that we could be using their powers to become the dopest crime lords in history.
This is the worst way to use time travel to get rich i have entry l ever heard
It’s not about the money here man - it’s about the power. The main squeeze here is becoming a crime lord, not getting rich.
Keep giving them 1 penny and then tracking them down. Do this for most of your life until you are pretty young, and kidnap them. Then you can just relive your life over and over as many times as you want. I mean, sure, it's not the ethical way to use their power...
Oooo, that’s even better - all you have to do is find them within 14 minutes at most.
do they still get to peg you after becoming best friends?
Yes - but there’s a non-zero chance one or both of us would be underage, so we’ll be chaste until 18. Then we enter the bone zone.