A WORLD WHERE YOU COULD TURN BACK TIME

I disagree with Avee. A minute, well spent, is worth a lifetime. A person like me, who delves into the occult, is obsessed with the arcane, and seeks conversation with spirits, demons, and angels, would find a minute of time travel per day to be priceless. Would I seek to conquer the world? Unlikely, but it would be a quick way to solve some immediate problems, but I would still consider it a misuse and underestimation of such a talent. Help people from the shadows? Certainly. Covertly guide the world down a path towards global enlightenment? Now, you're speaking my language. One minute a day! A changed decision here. A skeptical mind turned true believer after a one minute demonstration there. What couldn't I accomplish? Even better, I couldn't accomplish it instantly. It would still be a power to be patiently earned and properly respected and appropriately worked for.

Every civilian would have to equip themselves with some kind of stun gun, and at first you wouldn't know if your aggressor is a time traveler or not, so you'd end up using your stun gun on anyone who assaults you.

A clever time traveler criminal would hire followers, have them commit the crime and take the shot/consequences, then he'd step in to eliminate the victim/police and go on with the crime.

There's an issue with this, though. 1 minute can be invaluable but it can only be used one a day. If you use it to save one person, what of the next person who comes along?
You can change a mistake you made, but then make another mistake in its place. It's not enough to change your life completely, or to change laws. What can you really affect in one minute, once? Not as much as you'd think.

For example, bank robbery. Guys go in steal shit, one shoots a hostage. Fine, go back one minute. That guy is still ready to shoot someone, stop him. But he's still amped up and maybe he shoots you, the person who stopped him, instead. Maybe he shoots someone else. Maybe denying him that one shot makes him shoot more than one person instead. Now you have multiple casualties and no way to save them. Sometimes letting bad things happen staves off worse things happening.

Another example - an argument. You say the wrong thing to your spouse, you hurt them. And you regret it but if you are in such a state that you said such a thing are you going to be in a state as to take it back, even with a minute to calm yourself? What if it was something they said to you first, that hurt you bad, which made you say such a thing. You go back and suddenly they're saying that again and now it hurts double because it's the second time they've said that to you and the repetition makes you angrier. You were already angry the first time. This time you say something worse or hit them or decided enough is enough. Going back did fuck all to help.

And no, you can't say "Oh, but I immediately regretted it and calmed down". No, that's not how emotions and the human mind works. You still feel resentment over what they initially said/that they pushed you so far to make you say what you did/that you're even fighting in the first place. One minute isn't enough to get back on an even keel.

Not only that, but recognising a mistake within a minute as well as coming up with a plan to change that mistake? Not really much of a possibility. A lot can happen in a minute but if your mind can't keep up, that's it - you've missed your chance to change anything meaningful.

Well, if we're talking a country like North Korea where most of the populace is brainwashed already, then something like that would be viable, but 1000 in a population of 6+Billion is very, very small. A country would be lucky to have 2, let alone more, and it'd probably be Europe, Africa or America who'd get the largest amount, being the biggest land masses. Even then, they'd have to seek out those people and identify them among the literal horde of people without said powers.

And how could they see 100 versions of something if 100 of them were to come together? They'd see all the same thing - it's not like they're travelling through universes after all. Also the time is limited, even if it is just 1 minute each, they'd still see only minute differences before having to send someone back to change it again (I assume you mean something like a conga-line of change where one person goes back, changes, then the others observe what changed... but even then, only the changer can see the change - the others have no idea that something was changed at all because what they're living is being rewritten each time. And debriefing each and every one of them would take time if they wanted to analyse what would be the best change to keep. Even then, someone might mess up a change and actually affect the world in such a way that going back again is impossible for the next person in the conga line.)

But the one minute once a day rule is just fine if you're NOT trying to be a superhero. Remember, there is no rule that says you can't plan ahead of time what you will use that minute for, and a minute well spent is worth a lifetime. Imagine if there were a bill I wanted passed, and I had access to the President of the United States.

Imagine if I knew something about you and one of your adversaries, whom I want you to succeed over.

Imagine if someone embarrassed you in order to make him or herself appear superior to someone with important decision making power over your future?

What can be done with one minute, a sharp tongue, and prophetic foreknowledge?

Que diabolical laugh.

But you see, that's the point. Of the one man who succeeds in doing something, there's always plenty of others who have tried and been revealed. It's the one man who's smart enough to it, and disciplined enough to not talk about it who ties to the strings to the puppets.

You could technically go much farther back than 1 minute if you find enough people to chain your power with. With 1440 people you could rewind all the way back to when you met the 1440th person.