Truth. I was talking stocks with my girlfriend. She thought it was too scary to get involved in something as potentially volatile as the stock market. I told

Truth. I was talking stocks with my girlfriend. She thought it was too scary to get involved in something as potentially volatile as the stock market. I told her basically what you just described. There are many people in business that are literal sociopaths. They will bury and burn any and all barriers on their path to making an increase in share price. "I will not let this company flounder on my watch!", they hypothetically say in my mind. To these mythical business people, the share price is an extension of their character. Maybe that's a bit extreme and that's not why I'm investing. But it's why the market doesn't scare me. Too many sociopaths all want one thing: the numbers to go up. I know I'm right too. Just rewind to 2002-2008.