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by eek2121 1201 days ago
If 20 people give you $1,000 each totaling $20,000 and you just know you can make $50,000 by holding it for X amount of years thanks to the economic gods, what happens if your $20,000 suddenly is only worth $5,000 thanks to you having to sell said asset much sooner than you would like?

Now you know why.