• cholesterol@lemmy.world
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          A percentage is a percentage, regardless of how much money you have. Your reply was that investinghaving ‘the money’ made me ‘the problem’ as if only wealthy people could buy stocks. I satirized that, because it takes very little money to invest in the stock market. Whether you have other reasons to choose not to do so is a different matter.

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              I can’t even make sense of what you’re saying. You’re the one who replied to me. Going to leave it at that.

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      Not really. In today’s world, a couple having assets of up to a few million is the equivalent of someone 50 years ago having a paid off house and a pension. That’s the kind of assets you need if you want to finance a basic middle class retirement.

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        That’s usually a house. But yeah if they have a million in a 401k then they’re part of the problem. Those funds are sitting in investment companies like Blackrock fueling the primacy of Wall Street over everything.

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          Having a million in a 401k today is like having a pension 50 years ago. If you want to actually retire in this capitalist hellscape, that’s what you need to have. A million in a 401k is like $40k/year of retirement income. And it’s not like pension funds don’t invest their savings in Wall Street either.

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        Except the players with the biggest headstart get to make up the rules of the game.

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            Nope, participation in a system that’s forced on you isn’t consent. But you can choose to do something to change the system. Get active, march, vote, organize.

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        Oh no. No. No. No. The players make the rules. Shifting focus to the game being bad is a deflection as old as time.

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        Sure because “buying the dip” in regards to a recession is totally about someone buying half a share and not corporations vacuuming assets out of the economy.

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        Or penny stocks, or just general stock that isn’t too expensive. I have a handful of shares of MVST. It’s $1.77 per share.