Which would you rather have, $20 Million 20 years ago, or $200 Million today?

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Which would you rather have, $20 Million 20 years ago, or $200 Million today?

Time or money?

[Bertha Venation]

1. I voted $20M, but then I just realized

that that would have changed my life so drastically that I may never have met Mrs. V.

[Orsino]

2. +1

No time machines, please.

[BOSSHOG]

3. 20 MIL 20 years ago

I did quite well in the stock market in the 90's with practically nothing. And got out at the right time. Give me a few bucks and a far horizon. However, I'm older now but your criterion called for 1989. I have no doubt I'd be well ahead of 200M with my initial 20M and 20 years, as my current station attests.

[flvegan]

4. $200 million today.

I was 18 20 years ago. 18 years old + 20 million = $0 today.

[BreweryYardRat]

5. $200 million today.

I was an infant 20 years ago.

[arcadian]

6. Give mine to charity

[ZombieHorde]

16. I know what I am changing my name to! nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. Two hundred million today. If I had twenty twenty years ago, it would surely be gone by now. n/t

[Kansas Wyatt]

8. I was 20 back then, so I would be young and rich.

Then again, I could have fucked up, gotten married, and then had half of it taken from me after she rat-holed a lot of it away. Crap! I just can't win.

[Deja Q]

9. Money fixes what others require the time to be spent on because of their ineptitude.

[wickerwoman]

10. $200 million today

I finally know what I really want to spend it on. If I'd gotten $20 million at 13 I just would have drifted aimlessly through life.

Plus if you invest the 20 million at 10% over 20 years you still only get $135 million at the end.

[Iggo]

11. 20 yrs ago I was a drug addict in full stride.

So I'd be pretty much dead by now.

[rockymountaindem]

12. Not sure what I'd do with 20 million when I was three, so I'd take the 200 mil. now

That'd be pretty bitchin'.

[quakerboy]

13. +1

I am older than you, but 20 years ago, no way would I have had any discretion with the money. I doubt I would ever have finished college, given the lack of a need to get out before taking on another year of loans. I am sure that I would not have met my wife, for whom I would happily give up both sums of money.

Plus, if there was anything left of the 20million from 20 years ago, it would have been halved by the recent crash, and even wisely invested, it would only be half of what it was. And I find it doubtfull that even very wisely invested, 20 million would have inflated to 200 million to use now. Money in that quantity is for using, keeping only enough back to maintain a reasonable life beyond the initial ability to splurge and to help a lot of people/animals.

[LeftyMom]

14. 20 years ago I would have blown it all on candy and Nintendo games.

Because I was eight.

So now, thank you.

[krispos42]

15. $200 million

20 years ago I was 13, so my parents would have gotten the money!

Besides, with that much money NOW, I could convince my ex and her new family to move back East. I'd buy her a 4-bedroom house, I'd buy myself a house in the same neighborhood (same school districts), and I'd be close to my parents, who frankly are starting to need the help.

Not that I'm a big fan of living in Connecticut, but that's where my family is right now.

And I'd buy WEBE 108, throw all that easy-listening music onto the parking lot, torch it with a flamethrower, and turn it into "Fairfield County's LeftTalk Live 107.9 FM - 50,000 Watts of Freedom!"

And I'd do the same thing in Salt Lake City, Utah... just to piss off the reddest state in the Union.

[TommyO]

17. I'll take the 36.3 million cash option in Tuesday's Mega Millions!

[bigwillq]

18. 200 mil today (nt)