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You Are Given £40,000 A Year, and A One Way Time Machine

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AB Editor | 15:27 Fri 29th Jun 2012 | Society & Culture
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Afternoon,

Little thought experiment stolen from: http://timharford.com...-to-be-a-millionaire/

(Currency adjusted)

You are given £40,000 a year for the rest of your life, and access to a time machine. The time machine can only go to 1900 and it is a one way trip only. The money is the same if you use the time machine or not, so travelling back to 1900 will allow you to support a mansion and servants.

Would you take the trip in the time machine or not?
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1900?

Are you kidding? That gives you just 14 years before the world goes mad!

1880 and maybe you've got a deal
15:37 Fri 29th Jun 2012
no thanks
not
Yes, but I'd get any dental work I needed done first.
Not if it's only a one-way trip. Too much good stuff in this life to lose.
not x
Not for me, thanks.
Nope, I wouldn't.
I'd take the money in the present time and be very happy thank you very much - a time leap would mean you have money but live in a world that is alien to you and will never see any of your friends or family again which could well be a poor existence.
Not a chance
Nope
If I could go back in time, no way would I go that far
May I take my laptop so I can still use AB?

Oh, hold on a minute...
Can we take our family with us?
Yes, I think I would!
No way. I might take the money and go back to the summer of 1976 though
Only if I can come back
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Those who have said Yes - what attracts you about it?
Just to see what it was really like then, and possibly to meet people I have only read about.
I might think about it but I know my Family would not. So, No. I wouldn't want to live in any time without them.
1900?

Are you kidding? That gives you just 14 years before the world goes mad!

1880 and maybe you've got a deal
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You can't come back.

Would the answers change if you could definitely bring your family, or 25 people of your choosing?

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