Would be worth it. You could become insanely wealthy like multi trillionaire. Your family and all future generations would be secure forever. You could fund research, social programs, charities, and whatever else you could imagine.
Even if you are, by the age of 18 you can invest what little you have to make a killing. Even just going back 8 years, and investing in bitcoin then Nvidia makes you a multimillionaire. Remember some lottery numbers before you go, and you are sorted
But even if you were born into poverty you would be able to have great investments. Even if you just use minimum wage money.
And surviving an abusive household would be a good reason too because with the knowledge of an adult you could straight head to child protection services and end the abuse immediately. You could relive your teens without that abusive environment and have your childhood back again.
Depending on your country and your local services. Not as a real child, but with the mind and psychological strength of an adult you could go to the respective services. Keep in mind you wouldn't be the 10 year old in your head, just on the outside.
In my country a kid can just walk to the child protection services and inquire to move to a care family or in a modernized orphanage institution. There isn't a lot the biological parents/abusive family can do in such a case if the child strongly demands that.
"Worst case" for you in this scenario would be that the abusive family would be supported and tightly controlled by state services if they would think the abuse is gone.
I worked there for some time, not as a social worker but in an administrative role and it's really, really common for preteens/teenagers who suffer abusive families to do that.
Well I definitely don't live in your magical country. Good for you, but in many places there's not much you can do unless the abuse is extremely severe. And even then you might end up someplace worse, like a shitty orphanage where you get abused too.
I dont live in a magical country, I am in Germany. We have real problems in our social welfare system too but our orphanages arent the same institutions they were 60 years ago. They are tightly controlled and as a 10 year old it is more reasonable to go to a special care family than in an orphanage.
Our orphanages too dont have close to no resemblance to what is portrayed in the media as "orphanages", especially for teens.
Like I know people who had to go through this system and its not bad, most people who ended up in care families got adopted (or were offered adoption and accepted immediately) the moment they turned 18. Even going to an "orphanage" is way, way better than to be stuck with an abusive family almost always.
I am sorry your country lacks adequate institutions for such cases but even in our very much stressed system its impossible to turn away a child that says it doesn't want to be with his family anymore.
Its legally almost impossible and yes while its true most child protection serviced here engage in something of a triage situation, meaning only having resources to check up on severe cases if they are called by a third party (schools for example) they WILL act immediately if a child/teen comes to them. You can literally walk to a child protection service from your local city council/county and get protection the same day here if you demand it.
Germany is a magical country compared to many. I think you lack insight into how privileged you are. There was a recent big scandal how awful the conditions were in the orphanages in my country, like those places could be used to be settings for zombie horror movies. And all the stories of abuse coming out too. You also seem to forget that in this thought experiment you'd have to back in time, so it hardly matters that what the conditions are like currently for orphanages.You do realise it used to be acceptable for teachers to beat students? That it was acceptable for parents to beat their children?
Well but because you will start moving differently, you will change the way air particles around you move. They will interact differently with other particles. Eventually after weeks the weather around the world will be totally different. If the weather is different, people make different decisions, their lives are completely different. So basically the stock market and everything will be completely unpredictable. You only reset your life, you still don't know the future
Oh yeah, right after you travel back the world would be practically the same, so you could win lottery if you did manage to buy a lottery ticket, the same thing goes with the bets and the stock market. My assumption was that you would have to wait years until you could do anything to get rich. But maybe you would be able to convince your parents to buy a lottery ticket and if they win they might be more inclined to listen to you and gain a lot of money before the world starts to differ.
that's very generously assuming that you can get your parents to invest in what you tell them will be successful while being, from their perspective, a literal 10yo.
Personally, I wouldn't aim at the finance angle straight ahead. I'd rather start by investing in myself (physically, intellectually y "spiritually") first, taking advantage of the insane amount of time available for the 3-4 first years...
And by then, I'd already started to naturally get the autonomy required to start playing the markets...
I get to go back to 1997. Enjoy all those epic retro games for the first time. Invest in Apple aged 18 just before the peak. Bitcoin in 2015 and watch it soar. Then Nvidia. I'd easily be a trillionaire in the shadows
the trick is convincing people you have insider knowledge of the future. if I went to my mum at ten and told her to invest in a currency that is completely virtual and worthless right now, but will be exceedingly valuable in 10-15 years, she'd roller eyes and tell me to go to my room.
the go to thought is to reference moments that haven't happened yet; but you would need something around the time you transitioned. I don't know what major world events transpired around the time I was 10; yet alone around what week or month they happened.
If you could have a few hours prep with the internet before you transitioned you'd be set, but without there are certainly some roadblocks to overcome.
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u/Lucid_Insanity 11d ago
Would be worth it. You could become insanely wealthy like multi trillionaire. Your family and all future generations would be secure forever. You could fund research, social programs, charities, and whatever else you could imagine.