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

[wastedmermaid]

Once again, only on this site do nikkas make it seem like 100k is chump change
fukk going back to the stone ages for any amount of money...
Give me the 100k ill get myself a nice plot of land down south save my money and do some investing and ill live out the rest of my days comfortably. Im a simple man and that's all i need to be happy honestly. Not really interested in trying to reshape society or whatever like some of yall

 

[42 Monks]

Bill gates got more than that and there are still issues in this society that his money can't solve. .

U can't just show up with 1 billion dollars and think everything is going to be all good

You really want to knock Bill Gates influence?

 

[DreadBrown]

They had p*ssy and weed in 1917 right?

Easy choice I would live like a young god

 

[analog]

With a billion in 1917 you ARE the financial institution

Someone wants a loan, investment backing, funding for an invention, campaign support, etc they gotta come to you

Kill me if you want to but who's paying for the transportation of this state's medical supplies?

How/where are you setting up a black bank with a billion dollars in cash to back it up, in 1917? Unless you plan on enjoying the wealth low-key, you gone be in some shyt.

 

[eufemism]

With 100k right now you're living better than 99% of humans in our entire history


You can travel across the world with ease, own a big house, afford any type of food you want, have healthcare, internet, own your own car, etc.



People would die to allow their families to live during our time. I'd be grateful with 6 figures now

 

[42 Monks]

How/where are you setting up a black bank with a billion dollars in cash to back it up, in 1917? Unless you plan on enjoying the wealth low-key, you gone be in some shyt.

That's small minded as fukk

You basically saying you'd turn down a world changing opportunity at the most and the support of your entire bloodline at the least because you don't know what to do and no one would tell you how

 

[FSP]

don't see how cats don't take this option easily. white supremacy then and now are the same so why not go to 1917. The patents alone would be worth it.

What patents?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Being a billionaire(as in today) in 1917 would basically mean you being king of the world...

 

[ThatTruth777]

Think about it... if @Mowgli went back with that money + bjj

 

[FSP]

Being a billionaire(as in today) in 1917 would basically mean you being king of the world...

Was Muammar Ghadafi the king of the world before being assassinated a few years ago with a net worth of 200 billion?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Was Muammar Ghadafi the king of the world before being assassinated a few years ago with a net worth of 200 billion?

Theres no definitive proof that he was even worth that much.

 

[42 Monks]

Was Muammar Ghadafi the king of the world before being assassinated a few years ago with a net worth of 200 billion?

Was he not a leader of a sovereign country that threatened the balance of the global economy?

 

[Mars]

With a billion dollars in 1917 you'd be targeted by the mafia,who also had the police on their payroll.Any power move you made would be meet with extortion and threats against your family.The stress wouldn't be worth it.And if they killed Martin and Malcolm,they'd definitely kill your ass.

 

[FSP]

I'll take the billion in 1917. I could use that money and "discover" the oil fields, patent penicillin and other life saving medicines that would produce even more money, help finance Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, prohibition was around the corner so I would have my hands in bootlegging too. Pass on my wealth to my future children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. Probably have land in Haiti, Liberia, and/or Ethiopia since they were the only black countries that weren't colonized. Yeah you'll have to deal with hostile cacs back then but your dealing with hostile cacs in 2017. Black people are getting gunned down in 2017 and the police are getting off scott free even with video evidence proving their guilt.

Y'all acting every single person in the early 20th century was contacting gonorrhea, syphilis, the Spanish Flu, polio, etc. Yeah a lot of people died or suffered from stuff that is easily cured or treated in 2017 but the majority didn't die or suffer.

I would probably be on some Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom shyt and have my small private army takeover a small nation.

You're lying. How you gonna patent all this stuff in 1917, when you don't even know how to do it now.

Do you know how to design pharmaceuticals completely from memory because that's the only reference you would have in 1917 to draw from.

Oil was already a thing, but do you know, right now, how you would go about discovering more without checking google?

Do you have a thorough understanding of rocket science completely

Has anyone here even built a transceiver before? That's a beginners hobby project that anyone learn, but if you can't even do that, in today's world, you're not about to invent anything in 1917 with resources being much more limited

 

[Mars]

Theres no definitive proof that he was even worth that much.

American government/world bank probably stole his money.