If you could choose to have been born in a different time, would you, and if so, when and why?

[haxxiy]

The social discount rate for certain products that technology enables is just absurd, people worth tens of billions in the past like Nathan Rothschild died because they lacked access to a $10 antibiotic.

As a rule of thumb, the further back you go in time, the more you are in for a very very hard time.