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Old 05-18-2026 | 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Delta757
Yeah fourth grade education, which is why 95%* of active investors beat the market. Oh wait, it's 95% that don't beat the market.

If it's so easy I'm not sure why you're a pilot and not the wolf of wallstreet right now.

I'm not even arguing that investing beats paying down the mortgage, I'm just making fun of the absurd $750mil example that was thrown out there.

*I don't remember the actual number and am too lazy to look it up, but it's around there.
Because most investors treat stocks like a casino not part ownership of a business. Professional money managers with large sums in the $100s of millions do struggle to beat the market because of scale related issues but for small individual investors it’s not difficult to beat the market if you use 4th grade level math and can read a 10K/10Q

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-S.../dp/0470624159
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