RicOlie_2 said:
wait, would you still have to work full time (before you retired, but that would come way late since you'd have to save up extra money) to support yourself and your family? 'Cause that could really limit your reading time and I suspect it would be a long five hundred years...
Well working would really depend on how selfish I'd want to be that day. I mean with my "make people forget" power I could walk into any store take something and make everyone forget I ever stepped one foot in their store. They'd just be confused as hell as to why their alarm is going off. And if eventually it piles of into mountains of video evidence that I had done such things then I could just make them forget they ever saw that evidence and make them forget that they made those conclusions in the first place. So in a way I'd be able to rule the world entirely anonymously if I wanted to.
I wouldn't even need to outright steal like that either, if I wanted to be more kind about it, I could just give less money for everything. Ask for change from someplace else, make them forget I asked for change, then buy something at lower value than the change I asked for. So I'd end up with the original sum of cash plus the change and the item. In a way it would be "working" just a different kind of work.
If all else fails, or I simply become burdened by conscious of possibly feeling like I've been stealing, I would still have my final wish to fall back on and I could wish for something to redeem myself.
