> no one does this > I didn't have that much money when I was a child > it was hard to invest in the S&P 500 until recently A lot of you are missing the poin

> no one does this > I didn't have that much money when I was a child > it was hard to invest in the S&P 500 until recently A lot of you are missing the point. toado85 clearly made this to illustrate the behavior of the stock market in the long term; it's not a suggestion that you literally do what the hypothetical investment is doing.