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"Gotta get in there & scoop up grandma's retirement funds while they're cheap!"
Gramma should have no guarantee that her assets go up indefinitely. That is a boomer concept. Infinite growth is unrealistic and unsustainable. Hopefully her kids and grandkids will take care of her like they are supposed to.
Why don't those kids and grandkids invest their speculation money into something that tangibly helps grandma? Why go through the rigamarole of building a portfolio to maybe someday pay for a nursing home instead of funding a food bank or a mutual aid network?
Lol invest Grammas money in a food bank? 😆 Unless the bank is her refrigerator and the investment is groceries you're just wasting money. You win for most unrealistic solution.
Gramma should live with you when she's old not go to a nursing home. This is the way it's meant to be done.
In 2022 nearly 1/10 households with an adult aged 65+ were food insecure.
Speaking of grandma living with you, multigenrational households are more than twice as likely to experience food insecurity.
Is feeding those people wasting money? You're fine with your grandparents being part of that population if something unexpected happened to you?
Just admit that your solution is "fuck you, i got mine".
If you are experiencing food insecurity don't give your money to someone else.
If you have enough money to significantly invest in the stock market you're not experiencing food insecurity
If you have enough money to insignificantly invest you might eventually have enough to significantly invest assuming you take advantage of buying opportunities. I feel like I'm talking with an early generation AI model.
That money doesn't come out of nowhere; the stock market isn't a magical wealth machine. It works by incentivizing unsustainable private growth at public expense. It's a grand experiment to see who gets left holding the bag when you line shareholders' pockets for decades.
The results are in: after a century of trying, it's not profitable to feed people who can't pay or provide affordable healthcare or keep our shared commons livable. Public benefit is antithetical to shareholder interests.
We've cut the corners as far as they can go; dismantled every regulation; manufactured every last drop of demand. The only growth remaining is mining public user data and selling it to the highest bidder. If you exclude technology companies, the market has already been contracting for at least a decade.
You criticize older generations for expecting the line to keep going up forever and encourage everyone to do the same thing in the same breath.
You're only making money by fucking someone else today or yourself tomorrow. If you want to own it, that's fine. But don't act like you're Robin Hood for encouraging people to buy in to a broken system.
TL;DR - Make money or don't. I don't care.