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

[AB Editor]

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?

[mccfluff]

no thanks

[bednobs]

not

[Charity]

Yes, but I'd get any dental work I needed done first.

[Kiki-frog]

Not if it's only a one-way trip. Too much good stuff in this life to lose.

[cathfromsaron]

not x

[THEMOTLEY1]

Not for me, thanks.

[Traci66]

Nope, I wouldn't.

[IggyB]

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.

[emmie]

Not a chance

[ojread2]

Nope
If I could go back in time, no way would I go that far

[factor-fiction]

May I take my laptop so I can still use AB?

Oh, hold on a minute...

[ummmm]

Can we take our family with us?

[Frank97]

Yes, I think I would!

[237SJ]

No way. I might take the money and go back to the summer of 1976 though

[marval]

Only if I can come back

[AB Editor]

Those who have said Yes - what attracts you about it?

[marval]

Just to see what it was really like then, and possibly to meet people I have only read about.

[mazie]

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.

[jake-the-peg]

1900?

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

1880 and maybe you've got a deal

[AB Editor]

You can't come back.

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