I want to start this post by encouraging you dear reader to create.
Create new things
Create old things
But create.
I hear story after story about people making money in the stock market, and while having money is nice, I find it incredibly frustrating, it's simply shifting money around an not producing or creating things.
This causes a lot of problems, if less businesses are being made, (or things being created). Then that's less businesses to invest in, if everyone is investing then that means number go up, not because of some intrensic value, but simple supply and demand. Same number of stocks, with more dollars to invest means they have to go up irrelevant whether the company is worth it. We keep being told, invest so you can save for your future. if you thought crypto was a sham, I'm here to say that for the most part, I think stocks are too, just more complex, and they have support from the government, so these businesses largely won't fail if they can help it (they being the government).
My biggest gripe is the annoyance I find in taking money you have, and buying other money (I'm claiming stocks are just a largely uninsured form of money) to make more money....with your money. A kinda set it and forget it mentality, which I am guilty of because I too invest my retirement, but largely because I haven't quite figured out what to do otherwise with it. Most of my creating is computer based stuff and hasn't this far required a lot of capital, but I have thought long and hard about this, and how to create physical things soon too!
I wish you luck, but please please don't forget, never stop creating.
