Anything goes but I’m particularly interested in habits/practices/abillities that are real and otherwise can be developed with time and effort.
Keeping living space clean at all times
Time.
Have you seen the movie “In Time” about this very thing? Rich people live forever and wealth is accumulated as the duration you can live for. It’s a cool concept and a pretty good movie.
Is it anything like Logan’s run?
Cyberpunk dystopia. They share that.
Sound like a good idea, but turning immortality pay to win could, in the worst case, make it, so that only the rich can afford it. And thereby only creating an even greater constantly increasing devide between the population.
That also makes me think of Alrered Carbon, which covered that concept quite interestingly.
Apart from world peace (of course), a change gender voucher. Would probably cost 300 gems or something.
I second the change gender voucher. But a character makeover ticket would be even better.
In what ways are you unsatisfied with your current gender?
Happiness
A once off time rewind by 28 years.
Proficiency in Ancient Greek, Avestan, Hittite, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit, and Tocharian A.
Yes, this can be developed with enough time and effort, but I’m no elf to live a millennium and resources for those languages are awful to find.
Sodalicious fruit snacks.
Wouldn’t Tocharian B be better?
With A you could read mostly Buddhist scriptures that already exist in other languages, but with B you could read more historically-relevant secular works.
Frankly I’d be a happy camper with either. My focus isn’t too much on what those languages were used for, but on Proto-Indo-European reconstruction; having more points of reference is always useful.
(That said you’re right that Toch. B would be better - it seems to be more conservative. I thought that it was the opposite.)
A house in the woods.
Speaking and reading all languages.
Mastering all instruments.
Learning the Cha-cha
All the politicians, judges, etc. in the entire world
Then maybe some reforms could get done and the world can be better and less corruptable >.>
I’d buy all my time and my kids’, so I could spend their entire childhood with them.
Congress and the Supreme Court so I could once and for all make it so I’m the last one who ever does.
Healthcare
Freedom from the voluntary prison that my memories keep me in. That or a best friend or something. Either of which kinda cancel themselves out since they had to be purchased :/
Inhumanity, by way of a new body. The human body is genuinely just awful and I’d love to have something better.
The vacant lot west of my house.
For something more exotic, I would like to buy the ability to travel back in time.
Other than that, proficiency / mastery of musical instruments and coding or hacking abilities.
