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I'd write a list of future events and share it everywhere I can, editorializing of course to make sure them coming to volition validates my political views, and then use the eventual fame to shape the world in my image.
Ignoring that path, and with no political sway of my own ...
I've got nothing. I'd be like 5 years old and Australian. And overall Australia's doing pretty fine. If there's one issue I'd focus on it's digital privacy and my biggest adversary there would be Google. IDK, there's not really one domino I can affect to change things. Maybe warn about 9/11 and the subprime mortgage crisis but I'm pretty sure other people already did both of those to no avail. Plus I'd be 2 or so years old at the time of 9/11 so that'd probably not go well.
The one thing I realize about questions like this is that they are simply pointless. There is very little an ordinary individual can do to alter much. Even if you got taken back in time to the right time and place to make a change, what would that look like? People write stuff that predict the future all the time. Technofascist predictions about the internet being used by a few jackasses to monitor everyone and keep people under control have been written in the 90s, but no one listened at the time.
Assassination? Good luck! Even if you got teleported back in time to 1997 and were armed with a gun and right outside a room with an unsuspecting Peter Thiel and Elon Musk (and maybe a few others) would blowing them away genuinely 'solve' the problems we have today? Or would it simply allow for another person to step in and do the same shit but just with a different name and face?
Enriching yourself using well timed lottery numbers is practically the only thing that would make things better for you, but while that would mean you can relive those years in complete comfort (even luxury) if your objective is to change the world then it is a hollow one.
Probably do everything in my power to ensure the gaming landscape isn't as predatory in terms of having to pay for online access on consoles and seeing the Devil itself ( big red N ) go down in flames. Also, try to make console exclusives seen as something nobody is interested in anymore and are unwilling to purchase, more or less towards the 2010s rather than the 2000s, otherwise some of my favorite franchises wouldn't exist.
XboxLive? Find a way to fudge all the numbers to make it look like absolutely nobody was buying it!
GameCube? Find a way to ensure little to no 3rd party devs make anything for it by any means possible!
PSN? Keep that free like it was for PS3!
Would need to spend months, if not years, to figure out how to make all of that and ending console exclusives a thing, but a world without all that, IMO, would be a better world.
If I go back in time, with the friend group I had at the time, I could conceivably beat Zuckerberg to market with Facebook.