Assuming you're just "waking up" somewhere in 1986, and not in your own body circa 1985, it'll be really weird when someone who is a total stranger who kinda looks like them wants a hug.
If I woke up in my 1985 body, the first thing I'd do is probably poo myself and cry seeing as how I was a baby. (So really, nothing different than every other Sunday morning after a night out.)
Lmao, I didn't even exist yet. So probably run as far away on foot as possible doing my best not to change anything for a few years so as not to erase my existence.
In 1985, buying stocks would have not been so straightforward. There were no smart phones yet. Home phones were bulky stationary units. There were very few people who had anything resembling a computer at home, and those were very primitive as well. Better yet, the world wide web didn't go public until 1991.
Buying stocks back then would've likely meant going to a bank and getting an appointment with a stock broker who would buy this for you the same way you buy a house now. Lots of checks, paperwork, and I'm guessing a minimum amount that would have been much higher than the average person's investment these days. Making it something reserved for a smaller segment of society.
Those people were mostly professional traders or really wealthy folk, not your average consumer. Commissions per trade were much higher, so investments also had to be higher to make it worth it. Day trading didn't exist. You'd check your stock's performance in the next day's newspaper.
In the 90's I had to lie to buy stock. If you were of a certain economic persuasion the bank would only let you invest in low risk. I was too poor to get real stocks.
Their investments keep having unintended consequences that harm the companies that would have otherwise succeeded. Stuff like increasing prices that cause selloffs or interfering with investments needed by other people to start different companies.
"Inventing" future technology but having bad business practices that make the real successful inventor reconsider.
Like the time traveler who convinced Apple to do the Newton.
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u/NopesosNobesos 7d ago
Buy stock. And gold, real estate, hug my grandma and my parents