Originally Posted by
Uninteresting
numbers in an investment account aren’t real money. they are just numbers. after all, whatever goes up, has to come down.
Short term, potentially true.
Long term it's always gone up, we know as far back as 1600. Through laziness or a slight tendency to follow financially conservative advice, I've always left my stuff in the market, and it's paid off. Very few can time the market, probably count them on the fingers of one hand (warren, etc).
That's not an absolute under all circumstances, nuclear war, asteroid impact, zombie apocalypse... a major reset to global civilization could be problematic. Guess you could invest in gold and pallets of NATO 7.62.