For some reason I thought someone had edited this picture and changed the people in it. I was wrong but since I spent so long going thru my archives to find it I thought I’d share

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I too wish to have a million euros. Not so that I could buy what ever a million euros buys you, but so that I could invest them and live a normal middle class life (as I already do) but without having to work my youth away and worry about the future.

No, I haven’t, but I can imagine. I didn’t expect air-fried French fries to be as good as deep-fried ones either, but to my surprise, they’re pretty much just as good but less unhealthy.

Aren’t most opinions like that? You can’t really have an opinion about something that can be scientifically proven to be one way or another.

Yeah it can’t be proven wrong but judging by my observation about the type of potato chips that are popular in my friend group, my preference for plain, salted ones seems unpopular.

He’s not a passive investor then. Passive investing doesn’t require any managing. What he’s doing is not the recommended style for normal people because it’s effectively gambling.

My investing requires zero managing. I set it up once and haven’t touched it since. It automatically buys more shares each month and never sells anything. If the market crashes tomorrow, I’m not doing anything differently. It’s like automatically moving money to a savings account each month, but instead of putting it in a bank, I’m buying index funds.

Keeping large amounts of money in the bank not only isn’t making you any money, but you’re losing money you’ve spent your valuable time working for. It’s like giving back around 5% of your salary each time you get it.

Imagine having to teach your friends and family not to touch your car or it’ll rust.

They’re doing that to avoid leaving greasy fingerprints on the doors. If it had door handles this wouldn’t be an issue.

Ton of people spreading misinformation about Cybertrucks rusting. It’s not the body panels that rust, it’s the iron particles in the air (called fallout) that land on the panels and react with the stainless steel causing rust to form but it’s just surface contamination that’s cleans off easily. It has to be cleaned from other vehicles as well but it doesn’t form rust because it doesn’t contact the metal panels due to paint and clearcoat. It’s not a non-issue but claiming water makes it rust is dishonest. It’s not water that’s the issue. It’s iron, mostly from brake dust.

Yeah I’ve listened to him, Dave Ramsey and others as well. It’s what originally got me into investing around 6 years ago. I should’ve started way sooner…

I guess this is essentially a philosophical question. Kind of like “would you defend your country?”

You can say you would but how could you ever really know unless the situation actually arises? Perhaps it’s just my ego trying to convince I’m notably different from others.

Isn’t that what self-determination and non-conformity is about?

I’d definitely eat one