1984

The way we live is completely wrong for a human being. Wasting our lives for numbers in a computer, just enough to pay bills and waste another month.

You can adjust your risk, sure. Those low fee diversified investments will give you index level gains, sure. But I meant getting actual rich. Then you need to bet on the right stocks.

Bill Lumbergh: Oh, and next Friday… is Hawaiian shirt day… so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

Bill Lumbergh: Ah, ah, I almost forgot… I’m also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. We, uhhh, lost some people this week and we sorta need to play catch-up. Mmmmmkay? Thaaaaaanks.

From my favorite comedy ever - Office Space.

And if it doesn’t pop, it has made ordinary people into millionaires. I was having a look at Swedish Avanza site where they launched a new feature where people can share their portfolios (what stocks they are invested in, and their account growth). The best investors got in early on all this stuff. Nvidia and now memory and disk stocks, so they consistently made tons and tons of money.

All while people has been waiting for the bubble to pop since… 2021? Maybe earlier.

We absolutely don’t know if it will pop, and even if it does, there was a huge opportunity to make money from it over years and years.

Thats what investment bankers did, and that’s what ordinary people did. Some got very rich on this.

Im just saying that because it’s important to realize that the way we think may not be optimal for our lives sometimes. I understand fear. But I also understand that some risks are necessary to gain something valuable.

What privacy? It’s not even a discussion anymore, it’s gone. No point even talking about privacy. It really is gone.