[lodonnell9213]

Not just parents generation, our generation. I don’t play the stock market, I’m not skilled enough for it, but I do have a stocks/share ISA, but I’m also not against spending money to make it. Many people I know will happily continue to pay interest on an item, but have savings which is less than the interest on credit. They have a 20% credit card vs a 0.5% interest savings.

And little things like that can help in the long run.

[paulpauper]

You don't have to be skilled. Just simple indexing will beat most of thepros anyway. Most active managers lag the market anyway.

[andrepd]

Buying a mutual fund is precisely not "playing the stock market"