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You wake up and it's 1990. Youre still your age and you have a bag with 5k in cash with you. What do you do? (lazysoci.al)
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[โ€“] match@pawb.social 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the stockmarket is not a casino, you cannot simply put $200 million on a car dealership company in 1993 and expect it to pay out the same way without altering the timeline

[โ€“] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah having $28 billion in 1995 would put you on the short list of wealthiest people. Even at 2 billion there would be people watching you like a hawk.

That being said if it is 1990 then they either have the identifying credentials of someone younger or they do not have them at all. This would make investment impossible. It's1990 so many of the standard banking practices are in play.