You are stuck in New York City in the year 1900 with nothing but the clothes on your back. What do?
You are stuck in New York City in the year 1900 with nothing but the clothes on your back. What do?
That photo is from 1938 retard
I've never been there, I'd probably go get a slice of pizza.
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use my skills as an electrician to earn some cash. Invest in MGM, Production companies and the stock exchange. Try to use my wealth and to gain political power to advise the dangers of trench/modern warfare. I wouldn't try to advocate for peace but carefully explain that treaties and global war will destroy Europe and weaken the colonial powers. If that failed I would warn the Russian Tsar of the communist uprising and recommend that he listens to the Duma and create a prime minister or president to assume the political responsibilities that he obviously didn't like. I'd also warn the Qing dynasty that shit's gonna go off and to watch out for Japan
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Throw away my clothes and, for the first time in my life, be completely free.
Nothing but the clothes on your back. I'd find some work to start. Make friends with someone at the job, give them a sob story about having moved out there from Iowa or Missouri or somewhere and got robbed when I got to town. See if I can crash at their place for a few weeks until we get paid and I can get a place of my own. If this was about ten years earlier, I would see about getting a ride to Alaska and prospecting.
Sounds pretty shitty, dock yard might be looking to hire if they're not getting a boat load of people that week. Suppose I'd get rejected for jobs all day, one night wears on and I got no where to sleep I'd maybe consider then to murder a prostitute in a dark alley for shits and giggles and then start walking to another town.
I like this idea. Imagine warning Tsar Nicholas of the rise of the Bolsheviks, and getting to marry one of his daughters in return.
Bro imagine how much easier it must have been to murder prostitutes back in those days. Computer technology has ruined everything.
Invest in William Randolf Hearst. Invest, Invest, Invest. Pull out in 1928 a good year before black friday. Buy up commodities, hold onto them for a couple of years and buy up all the reinvest in Kodak, Ford and other business I know will whether the great depression and get them on the dip. Also buy up property and land in on the east and west coast.
>buy up all the failing businesses
Joins the hobos at the closest rail yard, become a laborer, take up arms against capitalists and feds.
wait for John Lennon to arrive so I can kill him first
Yeah I'm sure they had better loot drops too unless their pimp kept a strong hand on them.
Find Thomas Edison and ask for a job.
You'd be pretty late for that.
Edison would have been world famous for a few decades already, and impossible to reach for a normal person.
How about Henry Ford?
He would need a ton of assembly line laborers in few years.
If I could show him how to add a grid to his electron tube to make an amplifier or oscillator, I'd be set.
I go find JDR and use my knowledge of very basic and unremarkable 21st century tech to blow his mind. Then I swear to him my eternal allegiance and that there's nothing he could ever ask me to do that I wouldn't do. Of course I'll need to be close if needed. Explain that I'll just need sinething to eat 3 times a day and I'll sleep in his barn. If I do well and he'd like to pay/compensate me I don't do cash but will take it in Standard Oil stock options. He practically invented the concept of confidence on the markets and would see thus as intelligent and his ego would relish in the implied confidence o was showing for his abilities/potential.
act like a Any Forumstard and he'll love you
My point was it would be extremely hard to get in touch with him at all.
All you have to do is wait 60 years...
I go with him and tell him how much i hate jews so we become friends, introduce him to taylorism, invest in oil extraction, get into the mafia, take a loan from any empire in Europe, travel to Italy in about 18 years.
I'd stow aboard a train to Michigan and found General Motors