u/AutisticGangsta420

Scenario A:

You are sent back to the exact day and time of your birth with ALL memories and knowledge intact.

However, you are reborn as the opposite gender.

In exchange, you receive $500 million tax-free the day after opening your first bank account.

No one remembers the “original” you, but you keep all memories from your current life.

You may also bring ONE person with you, and they can choose to gender-swap as well for the same reward.

BUT…

Your life will obviously not unfold the same way due to different social experiences, expectations, relationships, etc.

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Scenario B:

You restart your life from birth while keeping the same gender and all memories/knowledge.

However, you are NOT allowed to use time travel knowledge as a get-rich-quick scheme.

This includes (but is not limited to) :

- future stock prices

- lottery numbers

- betting on sports events

- crypto

- major future financial exploits

Any attempt to abuse future knowledge for easy wealth will mysteriously fail.

You can still earn cash via employment and purchase scratch-off tickets.

P.S: I left scratch tickets for 2 reasons: I'm generous, and they are based on random chance.

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Inspired by an earlier post, I decided to increase the amount.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/hypotheticalsituation/s/3rDxCODsk3

You are given $1 billion dollars but for the rest of your life, every transaction you make must be publicly posted on a website for everyone to see. Do you accept?

The mysterious benefactor offers you the cash tax-free, deposited into your account with all formalities. The only catch is that every single purchase you make with this money is automatically posted on a public website for anyone to see.

Need to fuel your car? Everyone knows. Want to buy something embarrassing? It’s online.

Do you take the money and live under constant financial surveillance, or walk away and keep your privacy?

For context, the Polyjuice Potion is a complex and time-consuming concoction. It enables the consumer to assume the physical appearance of another person, as long as they have first procured part of that individual's body to add to the brew (this may be anything — toenail clippings, dandruff, or worse — but it is most common to use hair).

The effect of the potion is only temporary, and depending on how well it has been brewed, may last, on average, between ten minutes and twelve hours. You can change age, sex, and race by taking the Polyjuice Potion, but not species."

— Description of Polyjuice Potion

How much revenue would this Potion generate in the real world?