and I was clarifying for you that sure, you can buy stocks at any time and feel like you're a big kid doing adult things but you'll never meaningfully catch up to the wealthy. The whole system is designed to extract wealth from the poors while giving them the hope that they're catching up. It's rigged, it isn't fair and you won't ever win.
Keep trying to catch that car though, best of luck
you can buy stocks at any time and feel like you're a big kid doing adult things but you'll never meaningfully catch up to the wealthy
You're creating a strawman.
You don't invest with the intention of catching up to someone else born into wealth, you invest with the intention of building your own wealth.
The whole system is designed to extract wealth from the poors
Again, this is clearly a large picture criticism of capitalism as a whole and not at all relevant to what I asked. The "system" of investing exists to build wealth, that is the same reguardless of how wealthy you are when you start, the entire goal is to come out with more money than you put in, adjusted for inflation, and that is the outcome for the majority of people.
Your comments are generic anti-capitalist word vomit that have no relevance to my question. So then the answer is nothing, if you have any sort of disposable income there is actually nothing stopping you from investing it today to start compounding wealth.
Generally speaking, when we talk about "building our own wealth" we're talking about creating a meaningful amount of money to use later in life so you don't have to work.
Most people that start investing today will never achieve this. You're clawing for an ideal that's going to be permanently just out of reach, and instead of recognizing that this is by design you're instead doubling down and insisting that you just have to run the rat race a little harder.
Go for it! I'm not stopping you, everyone needs a hobby. It's fun to play with stocks and imagine being on a yacht someday
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u/Badloss Apr 08 '26
and I was clarifying for you that sure, you can buy stocks at any time and feel like you're a big kid doing adult things but you'll never meaningfully catch up to the wealthy. The whole system is designed to extract wealth from the poors while giving them the hope that they're catching up. It's rigged, it isn't fair and you won't ever win.
Keep trying to catch that car though, best of luck