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More interesting to me is their ROI. Would they be as wealthy had they just parked their money in an index fund?
by bdcravens 3y ago
More interesting to me is their ROI. Would they be as wealthy had they just parked their money in an index fund?
- arpyzo 3y agoIf ROI is more interesting then why not a comparison with what the ROI of other individuals might have been had they had a starting investment? Also, why should ROI be most interesting? Is money all we care about? Why is it that we have money?
- bdcravens 3y ago> why not a comparison with what the ROI of other individuals might have been You're talking about a "what if" as opposed to concrete numbers we do a simple comparison of. > Is money all we care about? No, but in the context of the article, it is the metric. The point is to challenge the premise that their success was only a product of their starting investment.