Besides crypto…
More hugging time with the dog. 10 years go by fast.
I’d go to my doctor and get a head start on what’s to come.
I’d go to festivals and spend more time with friends.
Leave an toxic relationship.
But uh you probably meant how to make cash.
Buy Gamestop, Nvidia & Pfizer stock.
Bro, just put 10k into BTC in 2014 and you’re gonna do well.
OP said no crypto.
Why not though? It’s just stock market with less rules.
Nah, not just monetary gain! Just wanted to get in front of the most obvious answer.
I’d pump out the MAGA merchandise. I’m talking grift of biblical proportions.
Would you like a cherry on top? After becoming America’s #1 purveyor, I’d go all out telling the world that I got rich suckering rubes.
Put the big reveal on the 3rd last page of your book : Becoming MAGA Rich , that way they have to buy the book first 😄
…you guys realize that you’re both overthinking it. Maga books won’t make you rich. They don’t buy books. They BURN books. If anything, you release a book with Obamas face on it, and the title of the book is “Very Burnable”. The pages don’t even need text. Just a thick wad of paper, Obamas face on the cover, with the text “Very Burnable”.
Then charge $200 per book.
Fill it with lorum ipsum just in case any of them are brave enough to take a peek inside.
“He must be speaking that afro language.”
Make every 10th page out of flash paper!
You did say, “very”, yeah?
Reminds me of space force dollars
Probably a several-way bet on trump winning a presidency, suggesting everyone inject themselves with bleach and then staging a coup, Britain shitting the bed, deciding to leave the EU, manifesting £60bn of debt and shocking the Queen to death, Russian war in Europe, a global pandemic killing millions getting turned into political football, the Taliban taking over Afghanistan again, several of the big names in 2016 dying, a trend of people wanting to eat laundry capsules & idk Alec Baldwin shooting someone.
I reckon a quid on that would net me enough to buy an island with a mansion on it
Fuck me, have we had a bad decade
Plot twist, your crazy bet goes viral (no pun intended) and the guy who dropped the test tube in Wuhan was late to work that day because he was watching a video about it. No pandemic occurs, Trump fades into obscurity, and a small company working on climate change solutions makes an incredible finding and fixes the planet because they didn’t have to go bankrupt during COVID.
Alec Baldwin still shoots someone.
Get that ADHD diagnosis a lot earlier!
I’d wait a couple of years and talk my ex-husband into keeping our house and renting it instead of selling it when we split up. It made sense at the time, since selling it was the fastest way to pay off all of our mutual debt (and most of our individual debt, too) and make it an easy split, but if we’d waited a few years, we would’ve made a solid 6 figure profit. I have no desire to be a landlord and mostly I’m glad we sold it to a nice family for what was still an affordable amount, but it would’ve been the only way I could ever afford to buy anything else on a single income, and it would’ve set him and his new wife up a lot better. I kind of hate the idea morally, but from a purely pragmatic view, it would’ve made sense.
PPE and Vaccine maker stocks, it’ll be 5 years to get the initial capital but once I’ve got it together, those are gonna explode in value on me.
I’d hesitate to switch my college of choice for the friends I’d lose out on, but if I did I would know where I’d try extra hard to get in instead. Def reconsidering the major I study though, the one I went with was sold to me as one of the best and turned out to be fucking useless trying to find any work.
Buy a lot of fertilizer, break into the set of The Apprentice.
I appreciate the commitment to the bit in the username
`4
lol wow
Doing God’s work
Let’s see… that would be 2014… Uh… Fuck. Yeah, crypto is the only answer. 🤷🏻♂️
Nothing. No money for investments then or now, which is also why I never kept up enough with stocks, crypto etc. to be able to cheat the market as a one-time time traveller. Plus I have several medical issues (then and now) that remain unsolved mysteries.
Only thing I can think of is using a bigger boot partition when I installed reinstalled Ubuntu from scratch about 5 years ago.
Besides moving to linux sooner, I would not dual boot at all, since I almost never used the other system.
Least Linux-obsessed Lemmy user :P
It’s mostly just a recent issue that popped up. I’m currently running Ubuntu 20.04 (i.e. version from 2020, there have been two major releases since then) and since I use LUKS, resizing the boot partition is going to be fairly complicated, if I can figure it out at all.
I would have started coding quicker and go into software development and leave the job I had.
Learn to play Bridge while my grandma is still alive.
I’m doing this from memory to stay in the spirit of the question. I’d buy ethereum, then pivot to zoom in early 2020, pivot back to etherum mid 2020, then finally to NVIDIA at the end of 2022. I’ll look up how well my memory works have served me.
OK, I did the math. I could turn $1K into $74M in 10 years with that strategy. I lost a year of growth because I thought Ethereum was released in 2013 however it was the white paper that was released in 2013, the coin started public trading in August 2015. Either way, I’d still be happy with that return.
- 2014-06-19 twiddle my thumbs because Ethereum hasn’t been released yet
- 2015-08-01 $1.00 = 3.22ETH
- 2020-01-02 3.22ETH = $421.24 = 6.12 ZOOM shares (also buy toilet paper and n95 masks)
- 2020-06-01 6.12 ZOOM = $1538.262 = 6.80ETH
- 2022-12-30 6.80ETH = $8170.67 = 570.18 NVIDIA shares
- 2024-06-18 570.18 NVIDIA = $74773.41
Besides the obvious monetary stuff, I’d be going into my second year of university knowing that I am autistic and having learned a lot of the social skills and coping strategies that I learned from therapy. I’d probably be able to find a fulfilling relationship before I turned 20 (rather than 28), and I would have felt far more comfortable joining up with clubs and groups at school and developing a social network.
I often feel bad that I only started getting help with those aspects of myself within the last couple of years. But I wasn’t aware that I was autistic.
I’d start taking my health seriously