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Mark Zuckenburg is 28 years old and worth about $17 billion dollars. The world looks pretty good from where he is sitting.

So if you had the choice would you rather wake up tomorrow 28 years old or worth $1 billion?

You can't pick both, you must pick one or the other. Lets say, 28 years old and unemployed or worth $1 billion.


I'm 41 and would take the cash.........

Approaching 50 and I'll take 28 please

I wouldn't want to be 28 again, cash please.

How old are u now mate?

How old would you have to be before you took the years? It would be about 65 for me I think. And even then it would be tough. Even if you'd only got 5 years left, you could have a lot of fun with $1b in those 5 years.

For me it would be a tough decision once I hit my 50's I reckon.

Same age as you, same choice too.

Oh hell no would I go back to the 20's.  Cash please and I can hire a plastic surgeon to bring some bits back in age if I'm that worried about 'em.

41

Can I answer? I look well over 40 but am only 38!

I'm 42. Right now I would take £10k instead of being 28 as my kids are only 4/5 this week/next month. When I get to 60 I would take the 28 and set up a business as Herbert and sons as they would be in there early 20's. However I think taking  the billion $ at 60 and just leaving it to them might be easier.  Now there is a dilemma would I give up a billion $ to have 40 more years with my kids.

Im 29 and id turn 41 tomoz for a billion bucks.

55?

Fuck the $$
Life is more important and having another 10 years with my kids would win easy !

Money and I'd do it for £10m

If you don't need to work everyday you gain the ability to experience twice as much "life"

Abs no brainier ainec

How old are u guy?

Nearly 36

Tough spot. Probs 50 my limit.

Ok the question isn't really being over 40 v $1 billion, that is too easy, especially at your age.

I'm interested in whether they would do it at their current age right now, clearly for people under 40 its a no brainer for most, so its not worth asking that age group. I think most people my age would take the cash, I'm interested at what age people mind start to turn to the youth. Let's see what the people around 50+ say.

Putting aside things that I wouldn't want to undo, like having kids etc...., think I'd take being in my 20's again, over the cash.

How old are u Neil?

51 and take the cash.....it's all about the family future imo

Geo

Well he did post after you requested an over 50's vote!!   ;)

I'd like the cash please, I'd happily skip forward to 41 to get it.

28 ainec. I'd even take 38. I don't need money to make me happy.

All the money in the world can't buy time. Your dead for eternity.

How old were you when you realised that? I reckon I was at least 30.......

Depends if I could go to 28 knowing what I know now - then definitely. If I'd to go back & make all the mistakes again - nah I'll take the money & be happy with the result of those mistakes, not run through them again.

What about the amount of good you could do for so many generations of your family and others with that much money though ?

I'm massively in the "you don't need money to be happy" as well as "money isn't everything" camps but it does have a lot of positives.

Such a tough spot to balance.

I don't really know what "All the good I could do" would be though. Oh I know I could buy them fancy stuff and make it so as they never had to work again, but as I said, money doesn't buy happiness.

If my dad were choosing between having loads of money or to be 28 again so that he could spend another 40 years with us, I know which one I would want him to pick.

I watched a programme about Terry Pratchet, millionaire author of the 'Discworld' series of novels recently. He has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. His time is very limited now, and he would gladly give all his millions for a few more years of being able to enjoy the simple pleasures on life. (Which cost nothing anyway)

In the programme, which is called ' Choosing to die' (You can watch it on Youtube) He went to see several terminally ill peope, one of whom was millionaire hotelier Peter Smedley. Peter had decided to go to Switzerland for an assisted suicide. There was no question that he would have given up his millions in a heartbeat to have a little more time.

Frankly, I'm amazed and appalled by some of the comments in this thread, especially the one from Silo Graham, (Sorry Silo) who said "I'd like the cash please, I'd happily skip forward to 41 to get it". 

Andrew Marvell once said:

...but at my back I always hear
time's winged chariot hurrying near..

Well as you get older, you will begin to hear it too. It starts as a gentle sound off somewhere in the distance, and before you know where you are, it's clattering across the cobbles on iron clad wheels. Impossible to ignore. 

Marshall Barer wrote some lyrics, and Don Williams sang them.

I’m just a country boy
Money have I none
But I’ve got silver in the stars
And gold in the morning sun

That pretty much sums it up for me.

I wouldn't sell a year of my life for all the money in the world.

Great post Tom
Just what I said but In a different way

Probably go for bieng 28 again  my kids would love 2 see me with black hair and not look the oldest picking my 8 year old up from school . Money can't buy you time

While I get what you're saying Red - I'd not be keen to give up the last 14 years of my life for a do-over either - they're part of what makes me me.

But we're not talking about becoming someone else or forgetting what you've learned. We're just talking about being younger.

28 for me every time

Ah I was taking it wrong. 28 please.... a lot more experience, and a fully functioning pancreas!!!

Suppose it depends on personal circumstances too.  There's just no way I want to go through learning things all over again.  With the money, I'd be able to see my kids more often now and leave them (and future generations) something substantial when I'm gone.  Win win all around imo.

Having such a good time right now with no money, that at the ripe old age of 49 I would definitely go back to 28.
Money will never bring happiness if you are not happy now.

Incred post by Tom.

I'm 58 and my first thought was to take the money - I reckon I have a good 20 years ahead of me and although being loaded doesn't make you immune from stuff like cancer and alzheimers it does have an impact on life expectancy and makes dealing with stuff like that a lot easier.

Then the caveat that you  can be 28, unemployed, and have learnt the lessons of the past 30 years was introduced, so I thought OK, sounds good, all that 'extra time with your kids' and family stuff seemed convincing.

Until I realised that I'd be 28, unemployed with two daughters one of whom, would be older than me, and I'd have a 56 year old wife

So I'll take the money thanks.

It sounds very romantic to take the 28 again option, especially for things like spending quality time with the family. But if you're unemployed the reality is your family would be like wtf we've got bills to pay get a job. So you would have to get a job which takes you away from the family and it could be a struggle day to day. With the money you can spend every second with your family and provide a standard of living that they can only dream about. What's more you could put that money to good use helping charities. So deffo the money for me. However, if the age option was 18 it would be a different matter. Oh my lord to be 18 again.

I am 28 and I would take the money to wake up and be 48! With that sort of money you have a decent 20yrs left in you.

15 - 23yrs old were my glory days, at 28 its already over. Just grinding out the 9-5 til mortgage is paid and I can start living again. Would turn down any amount to snap go back to 15 and I would do everything the exact same as I already did, but maybe take a video camera this time around.

Lol. Yeah if only we had iPhones when I was at my peak. Nowadays it's limp to jizz in about 30 seconds.

At a shade under 37 I'm not quite qualified to post on this thread but it'd definitely be the money for me.

I love my life as it is and don't feel the need to be younger again. I certainly don't feel old that's for sure.

Also for the older people saying that they'd take the years how do you think the wife would feel about having a toy boy all of a sudden?

You think the kids would be happy having a dad younger than them?

Suddenly going from 50 to 28 would have loads of problems. I think it'd ruin your life to be honest.

Now if we're talking about having an extra 20 years tagged on at the end it may be a different story. As long as they were healthy years I think if you offered me a guarantee that I'd live to 100 I'd probably go with that over the cash.

This stuff should be in your diary Jase

I'm 39 so skipping to 41 is no biggie.

Isn't it a bit different if you are older with grown up children?  You could be possibly be going back to be younger than they are and I'm not sure I'd like that.  I certainly wouldn't want to outlive them.  What about your wife/partner?  They wouldn't be 28.  This would be amplified with older people, maybe a 60 year old married to a 28 year old and again I'd outlive them by possibly 30 years.

Part of life is growing old and growing old with loved ones and seeing your children and grandchildren grow. I don't think I'd want to change that.  Perhaps wording it as 'Money please not even close' was a bit flippant but I don't think going back to be a lot younger would be all it's cracked up to be.

Just my thoughts on it.

Didn't realise there was a page 3, was replying mainly to Red's comment about being suprised with me taking the money easily.  I see others have made my points already

If I skipped to 40 odd and had a billion I'm pretty sure my wife would be around 21.

Pretty much agree with all of this.

There'd have to be some caveats thrown in to make me change my mind.

And half a billion and no wife 6 months later  ;D

It's not my diary :)

prenup ldo

Actually I wouldn't have a wife  I'd just be swanning round Thailand like that Tim sharkey dude.

Just surveyed three 21 year olds and got a unanimous decision. A billion is nowhere near enough :)

Ive just surveyed my mother who is 60 in December and she'd take the 28. Then she actually said if she could wake up same age but pain free then she would. If i could take her pain away for a day id do it.

You'd will be probably be dead within a year then lol

Really? Even your not that ugly mate lol

Think that's quite short sighted tbh Tom. We are talking about being a billionaire, as in you would instantly be one of the most powerful men in the world. You don't think you could make major positive influential changes in the world with that sort of money ?

I'm 37 and would snap take the money - I didn't even grow into myself properly till after I was 30 anyway.


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26, Snap taking the money.

Last week i'd have snapped the billion, this week i'll take 28  :)

money and life are both over rated

but I've been young and poor, so at least old and rich would be something new to try out

I would be interested to know by whom and how is life is over rated.

Everybody who would take the being young and everybody who would want the extra 20 years added to the end of their life.

You have one life, you have a limited time to get things done and you don't know how long that's going to be.

If you just accept that and try and fit whatever matters to you into your allocated span then job done - if you live life like it's limited it means you never put off for tomorrow what you could do today and life becomes a 'richer' experience because of it.

imo - obv

I would go back to 28, not because I want to live longer, but because I was awesome and in my prime at 28. Powerful, charismatic, extremely attractive, intellectually aglle and a great all round sportsman. Now I'm just probs 90% of that in all those departments

 ;D

<3 Glenda.

I couldn't fit everything in if I had half a dozen lifetimes.

Maybe by some of the millions living in poverty around the world, then again maybe the many thousands living in the UK who suffer abuse of al lkinds on a daily basis?

The many thousands in the UK who suffer mental illness even?

Stats on suicides in the UK alone provide evidence that some agree with Jon

http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/Samaritans%20Suicide%20Statistics%20Report%202011.pdf

Geo

I would have thought that those are precisely the people who don't rate life very highly.

Then I don't understand why you asked the question

Geo

Because I want to know who over rates life, as per Jon's post. The people you are talking about don't rate life very highly

Ahhhh, my bad somehow read it the other way

Geo

Limited, but not predetermined.

Most of us could add probably 10 quality years on at the end with a few pretty simple lifestyle choices but, even though we know this, we tend not to bother, or to go some of the way.

We want to go back for the extra years, yet we scorn the possibility we already have to add them.

Great post.

I'll take being 28 ainec.

Where do I sign?

I'll take some 28 please

Would not take £1bn to fast forward to 24 let alone 41

I woulda prob given up a couple years for a billy ball back in my early 20s, to be fair my 20s are one big blur anyway until 28  ;D