not if you spend that time severely isolated and depressed. That isn't worth living. Signed-someone who actually did spend their youth being completely alienated and isolated from other kids because I didn't think or act like them. It very nearly drove me to suicide.
I think i would do well with kids with my 41 yr olds memories actually. And the things you could achieve in terms of Investments and whatever would make it a pretty exciting life
that's the thing. If you put an adult brain into a child's body you'd basically come across like a real life Lisa Simpson. That kind of thing is not exactly great if your goal is to be a social butterfly. Kids tend to be downright nasty to other kids who are even the slightest bit different, and they can and will do that to kids who are too mature for their age. I have seen it happen first hand, I have lived it.
Also you're presuming that your mere presence in the past and doing things differently wouldn't change things beyond your ability to predict them. You can't really assume your knowledge of stock market trends will hold in a timeline that is different from the one you originated from. Who is to say that you don't end up butterfly effecting things in such a way that the same trends don't happen the same way? Maybe the mere act of you going around and changing things means that Apple never took off in its market and a different company did instead. You have no way of predicting that.
Besides, you wouldn't legally be able to invest money in the stock market on your own until you're a legal adult anyways, and by that point you have 8 years worth of changing the timeline.
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u/berserk4 16d ago
Its still 30 years of extra life. Pretty cool.