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by justinlardinois 3760 days ago
> no one does this

> I didn't have that much money when I was a child

> it was hard to invest in the S&P 500 until recently

A lot of you are missing the point. toado85 clearly made this to illustrate the behavior of the stock market in the long term; it's not a suggestion that you literally do what the hypothetical investment is doing.