u/AffectionateLaw5504

would be cool to see the original timeline, i mean everything in the show happens because of things in the future or the past being changed.

imagine the original timeline, barry doesn’t get his speed until 2020, wally’s not there, we see the invention of savitar, the real wells, barry goes missing in 2024 (or whatever the original date would have been) we see the actual invention of the reverse flash, barry having a kid without it time traveling ofc, barry with both parents, barry not growing up with joe, no cisco, no kaitlyn, the only thing that’d stay the same would be the other earths because the timeline isn’t effected there, and lastly the arrow would already be dead or atleast way past his start

it’s weird to think about but other than the same names literally nothing and no characters throughout the show would be the same. thawne is the spawn point of the show, which would make it super interesting to see the timeline where thawne doesn’t even exist until decades upon decades in the future

i hadn’t even thought about this my first time watching the show but cisco, kaitlyn, and the rest of the people that worked with barry have all been able to comfortably live. barry and iris being able to live a little flashy with that type of apartment on a csi payroll.

so they must be getting paid, also not just regular taxes for regular payroll but he has to pay for a stadium like lab that is expensive for multi billion dollar agency’s (like the chiefs) to pay for. also considering (as someone from missouri myself) we get double taxed and business taxed like a mother fucker. then all the equipment, remolding in later seasons.

it’s not specifically said, but to pay for that building for that long, have that many people on payroll for that long, open the flash museum, the medical equipment and groundbreaking work with technology it would have costed barry millions dollars. possibly (more likely) hundreds of millions of dollars.

my guess would be when Harrison wells died it wasn’t shown in the show but he left his entire net worth to barry.

so barry could very well (especially right after receiving the money) been close if not past a billionaire. who just lived very VERY modestly