You Are Not An Investor... But It's Important You THINK You Are...

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The collective value of all American publicly traded stocks is now over fifty-eight TRILLION dollars.

That’s more than a three times increase from just a decade ago, and American public stocks are now the second largest asset class in the world behind only Chinese real estate which has… not been performing as well…

These amazing returns coupled with new technology which makes getting into the market easier than ever before has mean that more Americans than EVER are stockowners benefiting from this strong market!

Investing is THE best tool for average people to build up wealth to fund some of their most important life goals like retirement, send their kids to college, or leaving some money behind for their children…

With more people than ever benefiting from the stock market it means what is good for investors is good for everybody!!!...

The only problem is… basically everything I have just said is complete bull…

You are NOT an investor… but it’s really important that you think you are…

[TheNaldiin]

"I don't want to crush anybody's dream here."

*prepares hydraulic press*

[zachweyrauch]

Holy cow.... lately, these videos have been making me feel pretty alright.

[brandondenney]

This shit is literally ground breaking. Bringing the core principles of labor rights to the financial world in a completely measured, and fair manner. Go run the country.

[IndustrialBonecraft]

"They had multiple sources of income BECAUSE they were rich."
I *really* wish more people got this. Although, I guess if more people did, the pyramid scheme would collapse even faster than it already is...

[EmperorDionx]

HMW is always there to completely rain on my parade without fail. Thats why i love this channel

[Luminousplayer]

It always annoys me to see ads or finance experts get into news shows say stuff like " anyone can be an investor, you can start with as little as $50" ...for what? To buy a hotdog 2 years later?

[Demmrir]

I have $1.7m in investments, $2.3m if you count primary residence. But my job pays more than twice what my investment return is, so even as a multi-millionaire, I'm still more of a worker than investor so I still benefit from worker protections and benefits more than corporate protections. If you aren't a multi-millionaire, you should support pro-worker policies over pro-business policies.

[sylinashi]

Answer: because I wasn't born into generational wealth and I'm not an inventor.

[TheEndsJustifyTheMemes]

How Money Works, Plain Bagel, Ben Fenix & Patrick Boyle.

The 4 horsemen of sensible financial advice on Youtube.

[columer]

"You are not investor... but it's important you think you are"

Me, a fund manager: *clicks*

[shadowninja]

... That screenshot you showed at around 8:06 doesn't say what you're saying it said. It only said that women lose less from frequent trading, it didn't say that women outperform men, or what women and men investors average annually.

[GC]

This relates to a shower thought I have often: what is good for my investment portfolio is not necessarily what's good for me. You could easily propose something that would cut my portfolio in half and yet still leave me richer by making this country better for ordinary people to live in rather than designing it to transfer money into the pockets of the wealthy.

[brandonmorin]

Piketty's analysis laid the groundwork for a new taxonomy of class, and you've just condensed the essence of his ideas into a roughly 11 minute video. Bravo 👏

[WallaceHerbert-flve]

*Making money is an action. Keeping money is a behavior, but "Growing money is wisdom" I just saw this quote?*

[LawsRealm]

Well it is comforting to hear I don't have to waste hours analyzing stocks.

[whou]

Remember that when a company says they are doing something for the shareholders, the are referring to the executives that get paid with large stock options. So, essentially they are doing whatever for themselves.

[matthewnelson]

Your fact about people using Robinhood as gambling to pay off debt really reminds me of a plain bagel video where he analyzed tik tok financial advice. The girl was saying you just need 2 trades to 10X to become a millionaire. Richard seemed at a loss for words to explain that's nearly impossible and banking on it is absurd.

[ulogy]

Me, a guy who bought Intel to stop crapping on them so much: "Yeah, I should've kept trashing them."

[connorskudlarek]

It's important for billionaires for you, a non-billionaire, to believe you're just temporarily embarrassingly poor.

So as long you believe you'll be rich one day, you'll do everything you can to not regulate or tax your future self.

Which is incredibly beneficial to the billionaires, and largely why you're as poor and destitute as you are.

[memesgaeilge]

Around 04:00, you say that a 'boring' buy and hold strategy investor is no better than someone gambling on Robin Hood, but don't really explain how that is so. You're hardly suggesting that someone who, say, puts a regular monthly amount on the s&p 500 is just as bad as someone picking stocks and actively buying and selling, are you?