[thatfrenchguy]

> * She invested in individual stocks, mostly during a period when index funds weren't available. This lack of diversification is almost unanimously not recommended for regular people because the vast majority of people who try it dramatically underperform index funds. But if enough people do it someone will dramatically outperform and you'll read about them in the paper.

Sampling biais: there's no going to be any article on the people who lost all their money doing this