. . . about my circumstances.
Long-term savings? Investments? Some of us have $0 for that. We watch people like Musk lose $200B and laugh because we know it's either not real money that he lost, or because it was other people's real money. He lost nothing real of his own.
Good for you. I'm glad you had a few bucks, maybe a few thousand bucks, to invest in equities and that it worked out for you. There are people who never had a few bucks, a few hundred, a few thousand. People who for one reason or another barely scraped by, day after day, who watched friends grow "rich" because they had those few extra bucks to invest.
I don't even know how long I've been posting the daily Stock Market Watch thread. It's been a long time. Except for a few days several years ago when I went on a vacation and someone else took it over in my absence, I haven't missed but one single day when there was an internet glitch and I couldn't post. I've posted from cheap motels where the wifi went in and out. I've posted on other vacations. I've posted through some pretty major personal crises (including deaths of family members) that I don't even bother to mention here. But it's my choice, and I can choose to stop, too.
Cheer on your fellow investors, but please, don't lecture me. Okay?
Tansy Gold
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