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by mgfist 1523 days ago
You picked the (probably?) single highest performing stock in the past 10 years. Call it luck, but it's not luck because you were born rich. What if you invested in any of the other hundreds of companies that have gone bankrupt or lost most of their value.

In any case being born rich is lucky for many reasons, but not for you investing in the huge gamble that was Tesla

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>Call it luck, but it's not luck because you were born rich

So if I let you flip a coin, give you nothing on tails and $1 million on head, and you win, will you owe your fortune to luck, too?

L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur… de ceux qui n'en ont pas ~ Boris Vian