heres a crazy story idea:
lets say a few scientists from the 1900s/past somehow create a time machine. They go back in time to the 21st/future century and there the main character is, doing something that wouldn’t be so good for their rich boss to find out about. (idk what it is but lets say like the mc is a leader of the current country and is solving world hunger, exposing, lets say, an illegal joint and outing out every member to be in that joint. the leader, being the two scientists’ boss)
now this rich man/antagonist probably has to see for himself if this is true, but when he finds out it is, he goes feral.
timeskip blah blah blah insert interesting stuff in here.
the mc is born in a very modern world with eyetracking phones and tvs that ALWAYS listen, particularly their tv. The rich man did this so the mc could never happen, and if they did happen, he would never let them out of his sight.
With the entire world is technologically against them, along with all these rich people doing illegal things, how will they prevail? :)