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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 9763487" data-attributes="member: 6689464">These few weeks the same meme question has been circulating through Spanish language Reddit (and maybe Facebook). The meme basically asks the reader to choose in a thought experiment between a)$10,000,000 in cash, and b)restarting your life at 6 with your current knowledge. While a few people figured out the downsides of option a (needing to basically launder a lot of money in foreign currency, which is very hard), many choose b without thinking it through. Most just say something along "I'd buy bitcoin cheap and be even richer now", "I'd buy Apple stock cheap","imagine what I could do with all that future knowledge", "I'd be a supergenious basically." But there are many problems with option b.The average person nowadays is reliant on having an steady internet connection 24/7 for knowledge, so not much of that "future knowledge" to begin with. Heck, many people are already hooked on chatgpt to do the thinking for them. Even if they don't need a smartphone to recall important info, they are underestimating just how effing boring is to be a "gifted child" growing up and how isolated they'd be from their peers because they'd be gifted children on steroids. Forgetting we all are denizens of third-world countries with limited access to resources. Even today, as adults, it is very hard for the average inhabitant of LA to be able to buy stocks. How are they planning to get the funds and means to take advantage of that future knowledge as destitute 6 year olds in a poor country going through at least two recessions growing up? (And if you are young enough that the internet was widespread when you were six, you are very late to anything)Finally, they aren't taking into account the heavy burden of knowing decades of tragedies in advance as an immature child. How they would get very depressed knowing they are helpless to stop all the bad stuff from seeing relatives and friends doomed to unpreventable deaths, to global scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina or 9/11. And even if they could somehow come on top despite all that, all that precious future knowledge is bound to become outdated as the butterfly effect little changes start piling up. In short many come up as very delulu.</blockquote>

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