Most young people's financial capital is in their ability to work, their skills, their reputations, their relationships, their ideas. If you don't have capital in the form of actual dollars yet don't bother with index funds, focus on the returns to the capital you have.https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1270190280281448448 …
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Replying to @yashkaf
When you are saving, you can quit your job, you can move, you have the choice to take a step back and think. If you don't save, you are a slave giving lot's of leverage to people who does not care about you.
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Replying to @NicolasDorier
Agree, having savings is important. But it doesn't matter if you have a perfectly balanced portfolio of diversified index funds or a shoebox full of bills if your current savings are tiny compared to your future income. And sometimes a party, book, or shirt is a smart investment.
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Replying to @yashkaf
Yes, this is especially true today. But when my dad was my age, inflation was above 10%, in such a case this made a difference. But granted that today, with the ridiculous interest rate, it is useless.
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I know someone who has not bought a single electronic device for the 5 years I’ve known him because he is *so good* at making his friends love him. Another friend loaned him £10,000, sadly died, but he’ll never have to pay that loan back. Some are experts at social networking
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