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

[Colin X]

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?

Breh they don't get it


With a billion in 1917 you'd EASILY be the most powerful man in the country if you wanted to be.

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

You could buy something like Harvard and make it a black only institution

Dunno how prevalent black teachers would be, though maybe that's a smaller issue than I think

 

[FSP]

Uh the patents not yet invented in 1917, like basically every computer related patent ever

Do you know modern electrical and computer engineering front to back from memory well enough to write books and teach classes with no outside references? Are you completely also fluid in computer science to build software from the ground up since you would be the only one in the world with that knowledge? It's not going to be written down anywhere. You would have to be the sole author of all of it. You can't reference anything because it doesn't exist. Most people would struggle to build their own PC in todays society where the information is widely available for free and matured for decades. Maybe in 10 years or so you could team up with Alan Turing. You wouldn't be able to make anything computer related back then even if you took a device back with you in time, because the manufacturing technology to make microchips wasn't invented until 1970. Are you completely schooled in modern industrial engineering to make those machines as well? If not, then you wouldn't be able to file a patent for any of that because you wouldn't know how to write the patent. And if you hire other people to do it, then it wouldn't be your patent anymore

lol it's not that serious. I'm just saying...shyt goes deep. .100 years was a long time ago fam.

I'm done now. i love you all

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Do you know modern electrical and computer engineering front to back from memory well enough to write books and teach classes with no outside references? Are you completely also fluid in computer science to build software from the ground up since you would be the only one in the world with that knowledge? It's not going to be written down anywhere. You would have to be the sole author of all of it. You can't reference anything because it doesn't exist. Most people would struggle to build their own PC in todays society where the information is widely available for free and matured for decades. Maybe in 10 years or so you could team up with Alan Turing. You wouldn't be able to make anything computer related back then even if you took a device back with you in time, because the manufacturing technology to make microchips wasn't invented until 1970. Are you completely schooled in modern industrial engineering to make those machines as well? If not, then you wouldn't be able to file a patent for any of that because you wouldn't know how to write the patent. And if you hire other people to do it, then it wouldn't be your patent anymore

lol it's not that serious. I'm just saying...shyt goes deep. .100 years was a long time ago fam.

I'm done now. i love you all

bytch I'm not reading all that shyt

 

[FSP]

I don't care what year it is, 1 billion gives me the best chance to change lives and provide outlets, opportunities and education for black people.

That wouldn't be a sacrifice for me

Would it really? 100 years was a long time ago, maybe not enough for 1 billion dollars to make such a big impact at that scale. More money but also vastly more obstacles. Do you know for a fact that's the case when it took us as a nation 100 years AND WAY more than a billion dollars just to get to the point we're at now? A strong racist culture, also with billions at their disposal, would eagerly stand in your way. The point I'm trying to make, is that money wasn't even close to the only factor involved. It might not have cured very much at all when you dig down into the context. One billion is really not a lot at all divided among a nation, even a minority and could have been easily marginalized back then due to war, racism, economic depression, and one hundred other things. If you're concerned about opportunities and outlets of our community that much(and you are right to be). I can not see how anyone would ever ever ever choose the past instead of the present. Especially not the last 100 years. Opportunities, outlets, etc improved at an exponential rate in the past 100 years due to recent technology. 2017 is further away from 1917 technologically, than 1917 is from 1617. I'm just saying..

 

[FSP]

bytch I'm not reading all that shyt

I wrote it for myself, don't get it twisted

 

[gldnone913]

Mister Charlie would do his best to finesse and Jim Crow that billy from you



I'm still choosing the billy tho

 

[Michael's Black Son]

I wrote it for myself, don't get it twisted

 

[Umoja]

Do you know modern electrical and computer engineering front to back from memory well enough to write books and teach classes with no outside references? Are you completely also fluid in computer science to build software from the ground up since you would be the only one in the world with that knowledge? It's not going to be written down anywhere. You would have to be the sole author of all of it. You can't reference anything because it doesn't exist. Most people would struggle to build their own PC in todays society where the information is widely available for free and matured for decades. Maybe in 10 years or so you could team up with Alan Turing. You wouldn't be able to make anything computer related back then even if you took a device back with you in time, because the manufacturing technology to make microchips wasn't invented until 1970. Are you completely schooled in modern industrial engineering to make those machines as well? If not, then you wouldn't be able to file a patent for any of that because you wouldn't know how to write the patent. And if you hire other people to do it, then it wouldn't be your patent anymore

lol it's not that serious. I'm just saying...shyt goes deep. .100 years was a long time ago fam.

I'm done now. i love you all

I hope you realise that you don't need a complete knowledge of something to have patents on it. Many companies make their bread and butter by hiring talented individuals under contracts that give them the rights to their invention. With billions, you would fund concepts where you know the outcome would be lucrative.

I also hope that you realise 1 billion in 1920 would get you more than 19 billion in today's market. You would have that amount of money to invest in an era of limited competition and in an era where numerous markets are emerging.

Bill Gates started off with peanuts in comparison to 1 billion, let alone 19 billion, yet he was able to capitalise greatly on the emergence of one market (home technology).

 

[FSP]

And up your gify game, ya bish

 

[ManBearPig]

I don't care what year it is, 1 billion gives me the best chance to change lives and provide outlets, opportunities and education for black people.

That wouldn't be a sacrifice for me

The issue was more than what u just mentioned.

It was the segregation, white supremacist, world war, and all the resourses you are going to use for uplift black culture the were white owned.

U gonna tell them your finance and think nothing is going to happened?

 

[FSP]

I hope you realise that you don't need a complete knowledge of something to have patents on it. Many companies make their bread and butter by hiring talented individuals under contracts that give them the rights to their invention. With billions, you would fund concepts where you know the outcome would be lucrative.

I also hope that you realise 1 billion in 1920 would get you more than 19 billion in today's market. You would have that amount of money to invest in an era of limited competition and in an era where numerous markets are emerging.

Bill Gates started off with peanuts in comparison to 1 billion, let alone 19 billion, yet he was able to capitalise greatly on the emergence of one market (home technology).

I would not trust that in that time period because the only people who had remotely close to the education and knowledge you would need to help you would have been racist whites, and patent theft was a huge thing and also not an official crime. Ya boy Edison was big on that.. You need more than a general idea if you want your patent to be safe. If you're the only one with specific knowledge from the future, you better know how the hell to build stuff

Bill Gates built stuff (or at the very least stole from Xerox), that's how he was able to do it without a fortune to begin with,

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Would it really? 100 years was a long time ago, maybe not enough for 1 billion dollars to make such a big impact at that scale. More money but also vastly more obstacles. Do you know for a fact that's the case when it took us as a nation 100 years AND WAY more than a billion dollars just to get to the point we're at now? A strong racist culture, also with billions at their disposal, would eagerly stand in your way. The point I'm trying to make, is that money wasn't even close to the only factor involved. It might not have cured very much at all when you dig down into the context. One billion is really not a lot at all divided among a nation, even a minority and could have been easily marginalized back then due to war, racism, economic depression, and one hundred other things. If you're concerned about opportunities and outlets of our community that much(and you are right to be). I can not see how anyone would ever ever ever choose the past instead of the present. Especially not the last 100 years. Opportunities, outlets, etc improved at an exponential rate in the past 100 years due to recent technology. 2017 is further away from 1917 technologically, than 1917 is from 1617. I'm just saying..

There's plenty of ways someone could insulate themselves enough to get things done. '

People have done way more with less, so I'm sure someone with purpose and deep pockets could have a sweeping affect

 

[Cladyclad]

Y'all niqqas cheating. U can't pick 1917 and go back with knowledge from 2017.

 

[egsteel]

Lol...even then..they don't look like Selena Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Spicy J, Mercedes Morr, Layla El, Natasha Lima, Luana, or Lana Rhoades.

You gotta think 3-dimensionally. In 1917 all of those types of broads are still in Latin america. So just send some recruiters down and have'em brought to you. You're a billionaire remember.