Not like 1912, but say 1979 instead of 2003 for a gen z. Now, if you would retain the knowledge you have now or not, thats up to the genie.
if i was cis and stayed white i’d vibe in 1950s or something. but as a trans person hell nah, i like having some healthcare, not much but some
Stayed white? What do you mean by that?
Presumably that OP is white and in the hypothetical they would remain white
That makes more sense than what I was imagining by a mile, you’re probably right.
If you don’t retain your knowledge are you even you?
Philosophy of self is weird.
This is such an interesting point I’ve never heard come up before, wow
You should watch The Good Place. It comes up there once and I’ve thought about it randomly ever since.
Oh hell yeah. I’ll take 1949, please. 18 years old during the summer of love? Sign me up and drop me off at Haight and Ashbury.
In 1979, a LOT of people would not have the rights they have today, and others would lose medicine that keeps them alive.
I counter that we all weren’t born late enough.
I don’t have high hopes for our future to want to have been born much later… climate change, economic crisis and who knows what else are already at the door.
It’ll get better eventually.
Some folks would have easier access to their drugs though. Pre war on drugs might have some benefits
I feel the inverse. I kinda want to see what it would be like to be born, like, one million years into the future, or something like that.
Born to whom? The species will be long extinct by then.
Im fairly doubtful of that tbh.
I’d be shocked if we last another millennium. But a million years? Wow that’s very generous of you. I mean we haven’t been around that long even.
Frankly, I would not be terribly surprised if some descendant of our species, almost certainly incredibly, unimaginably divergent from what we are now but still someone, literally dies with the universe, however that ends up ending.
I’d say 1975 was a damned sweet spot for me. Medicine had advanced literally just enough that the life saving surgery I had at birth was a success. I had access to but was forced into the tech and comms revolution. Was right in time for the second wave of skating boarding, and got to be in on the very ground floor of snowboarding.
I honestly can’t think of a better time to have been born.
I can’t have been born earlier, I’d be dead! I was in the nicu for like several weeks.
