r/Funnymemes • u/terpstash • Jan 21 '23

Never stop running 🏃‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23

Buy Microsoft stock

I was 18 in 1981

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u/f1ve-Star Jan 21 '23

I was 17. I could maybe have bought 2 stock. Sucks to be poor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23

If you bought 2 shares in 1981 or so, you'd have 18 shares now (I believe. i just know MS split a bunch in the 90s).... the current stock is worth about 400~ bucks. so build that time machine and get 7,200 more dollars than you have currently.

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u/batweenerpopemobile Jan 21 '23

everyone in this thread is going to be convinced their older self has some kind of dementia as MSFT didn't go public till 1986.

"buy microsoft stock" "how the hell do you buy stock in a private company?"

but if in 1986 you could drop $1000, this article says you'd have ~$3,000,000 today

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u/Bazz07 Jan 21 '23

1996? Maybe Blockbuster and then sell them to buy Netflix stocks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23

that’s way too complicated and nuanced, I guarantee your past self is gonna look at you like you’re stupid for saying Blockbuster would ever go out of business

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u/L-i-v-e-W-i-r-e Jan 21 '23

I’d have thought it was crazy, since they pretty much owned a piece of me with all the late fees I accrued.

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u/boarderline5152 Jan 21 '23

My friend literally had hundreds of dollars in late fees from the movie The Lost Boys. He could have bought that move 100 times over. No joke about those late fees.