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   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 8/01/26 09:46, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-07 18:29:53 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:   
   >> On 1/5/2026 6:32 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   snip   
   >>> If I'd known he was going to be "playing the stock market", I could   
   >>> have predicted that he'd lose money. The stock market is an idiot's   
   >>> game for greedy fools who can afford to lose money.   
   >>   
   >> Pretty much any 'get rich quick' scheme is going to be a problem. Get   
   >> rich slow does work, however.   
   >>   
   >> My money is spread over dozens of stocks and funds, and is   
   >> professionally managed. Yes, they take their cut but its worth it.   
   >>   
   >> One exception is my Apple stock which I bought in 1983 and held. My   
   >> cost basis there is 11 cents a share. Its appreciated more than 2000-   
   >> fold since then.   
   >   
   > And if Apple had gone bankrupt, you would have lost that money.   
      
   And if Apple stock had appreciated more than 20,000 fold, he would have   
   found a lot of money instead of finding just a lot of money.   
   But if all the money spent on his Apple stock, his Tesla, robot vacuums   
   or lawnmowers had been used to repack a cheap mattress, he wouldn't have   
   lost any of it.   
   I find your negativity, in just about everything, almost unbelievable   
   but in an attempt to walk in your shoes will predict your reply to that   
   last scenario. Here it is.   
   "And if your wife went to sleep dropping her smouldering crack pipe on   
   the pillow, you would have lost that money.".   
      
   >> I also have some Tesla stock. Its up only 5x since purchase, and I   
   >> sold about 1/3 of it last summer when I was feeling particularly   
   >> pissed off with Elon.   
   >>   
   >> pt   
   >   
   > And Elon Muskrat's lunacy is tanking Tesla sales and stock value, so   
   > you're losing more and more money by the day. To get rid of them, you   
   > would have to find someone insane enough to buy them off you.   
      
   I suspect that you are qualified to make that purchase though it may be   
   difficult to get a broker to accept those smelly 1960's Pound Notes.   
   And if his Tesla stock had increased by only 3x when a third were sold,   
   then he cannot lose money.   
    > Hence the idiocy of the share market, best left to fools who can afford   
   > to lose money.   
      
   So is pt the exception that proves the rule? Given his profits from the   
   share market, he can obviously afford to lose money but Elon Musk (of   
   whom you are secretly insanely jealous), can afford to lose a billion or   
   two more than pt. Rather than earning a classification such as "fool",   
   people like Musk and Trump are living proof that there is no heaven in   
   the clouds after death; that the purest of heart who sacrifice their   
   lives in the service of others, are rewarded with wealth and power right   
   now in this world.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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