I've always been interested in time traveling science fiction. Whenever two s/f geeks talk about time travel then you have a conversation about what you would do if you had a time machine. Making yourself rich, lord over the world, meeting famous people, and other pretty normal things.
One of my brothers used to own a tobacco shop and he'll buy or sell some pieces for his collection periodically. He mentioned today that if he had a time machine he would go back and buy tinned tobacco (some of the stuff he sold for $8a tin is going for over $50 now) then sell it now. I had an epiphany, he could put on a disquise (or use a strawman) and go to his shop and buy the product from his past self. He pays in advance because he's not going to buy one tin, he'll buy a case then he could buy some pipes when the tobacco market was flooded. Of course once the pipe market was flooded then you could use your contacts to buy other stuff that you noticed was selling well on ebay or etsy.
Actually, a time machine would explain where all of this "vintage" crap is coming from. "Found it in my attic", I call bullshit.
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