Would you rather be a billionaire in 1917 or making 100k a year in 2017?:

@OffHalsted

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Yall nikkas talm bout cacs, i'm talm bout modernization of life:mjlol:ain't no tvs in 1917:russ:

imagine spittin game on this:mjgrin:

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Why would you stay in America?

You would have enough money to turn Africa in a self sustaining economy and offer up financial security for those wanting to return home.

You would literally have enough money to change history. It might not work but you'd have a better chance at changing things than anyone else in history.
Africa was even less developed than most places. You could go there, but that meant exposing yourself to a bunch of organisms your body has never dealt with before and with no expedited medical services(they still don't have that today), and no vaccines since Penicillin wasn't discovered until 10 years later. Your survival would have been a crapshoot.

The entire east was hostile and tyrannical

And europe was in a world war

Nobody here wants those early 20th century probs
 

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It's a big deal in regards to modern medicine...otherwise, I don't see a major difference. I mean by your argument....I can talk about you having a higher likely hood of catching AIDS or HIV...something that didn't exist in that form back then.

Like I said...if you think you have it better today than John D Rockefeller, JP Morgan or ANdrew Carnegie did ...then, there's really nothing to debate lol....you've pretty much convinced yourself of anything.:manny:
Dude we live way better than they ever did. The biggest thing money bought you back then was leisure time. And property
 

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Modern technology is a pretty big deal. There's nothing about 1917 that I trust. All the money in the world won't save you from a spontaneous electrical fire because your dumbass relative had the toaster plugged in too long. Trust engineering and safety standards from 100 years ago brehs. The titanic sank, it's sister ship also sank. Can you even name 2 ships that sank since you been born? brb just got dysentery from a random orange i ate and there's no cure developed yet brehs. brb developing random lung cancer because the smog is too bad brehs.

I'm sure that place looked nice I'm also sure it's been perpetually fixed up since it was made.

:laff::laff::laff:
 

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1917 is lame, give me 1 billion and send me back 2500 years earlier so i could rebuilt a much stronger Nubian empire, take back egypt from the geeks, hire the smartest people to improve the infrastructures and military defenses, build school to improve knowledge of my people. When my empire would be strong enough, i would invade europe and change the course of history:hhh::jawalrus:
 

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:what: living in 1917? :usure:


why would I do that even with a billy? nikka can buy anything he want but can check the next day from the flu :mjlol:

cacs gonna be saying and doing whatever they wants :francis:

imagine how many people unknowingly had stds or utis :picard:


old ass technology and corny ass clothes :stopitslime:


streets smelling like garbage and shyt all the damn time :hhh:



i'm cool. give me 100k/yr and I'll be eating.
 

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Africa was even less developed than most places. You could go there, but that meant exposing yourself to a bunch of organisms your body has never dealt with before and with no expedited medical services(they still don't have that today), and no vaccines since Penicillin wasn't discovered until 10 years later. Your survival would have been a crapshoot.

The entire east was hostile and tyrannical

And europe was in a world war

Nobody here wants those early 20th century probs
That is the problem with some of us, everything needs to be ready made.

With 1 billion dollars in 1917, you would have enough money to go to an area on the continent that isn't hostile with a team of doctors. With concern over your health, the first thing you would do is build a medical clinic. The second thing you would do is pay the doctors to pass on their knowledge to the people in the community. If you're worried about security, hire a defence force and again have them pass their knowledge on.

You're worried about tyranny in the other parts of Africa, give people an incentive to be at peace. With wars on the horizon, things like coal and iron had a value. You get the people to acknowledge their resources by paying for it and you use that as a springboard to bind them in agreements that make war the least lucrative option.
 

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Travel 3 months on a ship to Africa brehs

Why would you stay in America?

You would have enough money to turn Africa in a self sustaining economy and offer up financial security for those wanting to return home.

You would literally have enough money to change history. It might not work but you'd have a better chance at changing things than anyone else in history.
 

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Yall sound scared, Jack Johnson was heavyweight champion of the world in 1908, nobody lynched him or killed him, he was riding around like this

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With a billion you could literally fund your own military.

Fail to put in the part where he was sentenced to prison shortly after that for getting too much p*ssy by jealous cacs and didn't return to the US until a decade later...I see you tho :ehh:

They made a states line law against jack
 

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Slavery ended not too long and these cacs burned down black Wall Street 10 years later

You think they won't blow my shyt up? I'm also not assuming I know everything I do now like most people in here for some reason. So I'm just a random nikka in 1917 with a billion dollars

Give me that 100k
Took too long for someone to say this. Assuming that OP means a billionaire in America, no way you'd want to be a black man in 1917. White folks would do everything in their power to strip you from your money too.

Facts
 
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