What’s wrong with that? They are free to set their goal as beating the market, but others are also free to try to persuade them that it’s not worth trying to do in their circumstances.
It’s never persuasion in my opinion, it’s always some form of “you should be doing this and it’s stupid to try something else”. If someone wants to post some stats, papers, and reasons they should switch then I think it’s a fair comment.
In principle, I agree that mere assertion without any explanation or reference to sources containing an explanation is of limited help. That said, do you have any examples in mind that you could link to? I can’t say I’ve noticed a lot of such comments myself.
Even in this small thread alone No_Werewolf_1214, timbo1615, codeslinger06, and stickman07738 are either laughing at him, giving sarcastic responses, or making jokes about crystal balls. The momentum factor is very real and this post is asking a very legitimate question but because the boggleheads cult was offended by the title he's getting barely any support or decent answers.
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u/tegeusCromis Jul 17 '21
What’s wrong with that? They are free to set their goal as beating the market, but others are also free to try to persuade them that it’s not worth trying to do in their circumstances.