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Seems to me I've done one like this before, but I can't be arsed to search for it.

PROMPT July 24th

If you could switch places with one other person, who would it be and why? What in particular would you do?

So my answer might be different this time.

The short answer is, I wouldn't.

Of course there's a long answer, too.

First of all, what are the parameters? Consciousness switching? Full-body switching? Do I get their knowledge and experience, and if so, will I still have mine also? Temporary? How long? Permanent? If I'm living someone else's life, am I still "me?" What is consciousness, anyway? Or is this a "Prince and the Pauper" kind of thing where we just switch roles for a bit without getting into unscientific territory?

This comic   is relevant to the discussion.

Eh, it doesn't matter anyway. I still wouldn't want to do it. I like my life, but anyone dropped into mine would see things about me that I don't want seen.

But... if I absolutely had to, like if I lost a bet with an all-powerful supernatural entity or whatever (no danger of that but I can speculate; I am a fiction writer after all), I'd probably pick some billionaire, like Bezos or something. Not for the money, and certainly not for the attention, but because billionaires have private jets and just once in my life I want to fly on a private jet. But it wouldn't be my life, would it? It would be someone else's.

Even so, again, I wouldn't want to be stuck in that asshole's life indefinitely. Just, like, a day or so.

Maybe he'd clean my house while I'm on his jet.

Anyway, the whole thing is too open-ended to really speculate about, for the reasons above.