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I have a 300k position as a result of a modest investment of about $20k I made 5 years ago. Christ, I never said $300k was the modest investment and on a forum
by xwdv 6y ago
I have a 300k position as a result of a modest investment of about $20k I made 5 years ago. Christ, I never said $300k was the modest investment and on a forum filled with software developers making 6 figures I’m sure more than a handful can invest $20k toward their future retirement.
Of course now I’ve been pelted with downvotes and no one will remember what I actually said.
- FireBeyond 6y agoEven then... "60% of Americans could not come up with $400 for an unexpected expense". Based on that, what proportion of Americans could afford to put even $20k into the stock market, _let alone call it a MODEST $20k_?
- sgtnoodle 6y agoI suspect that there's a relatively large body of folk that read your comment and understood your intended meaning without offence, either agreed or disagreed with it, and adjusted their personal opinion on the subject appropriately without feeling the need to argue with you about it. Good on you for investing smartly and/or getting lucky. Hopefully you use your good fortune to somehow make the world a better place, and find personal happiness in the process. It's seemingly a non-sequitur, but I just remembered reading a short story in primary school English class years ago. It was about a distopian society where attractive, athletic folk had to wear ugly masks and weights to encumber them. Did anyone else read that?