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Karnezar t1_ixm7yah wrote

Years of alcohol and drugs have affected my father mentally. We can't have a proper conversation because he's quick to anger, especially when something is meant to be understood abstractly and he can't grasp it and he knows he can't and doesn't want to appear weak or dumb.

Like I told him I made money trading stocks and now he thinks I'm going to be the next Warren Buffet. And when I told him the stock market was down so I lost money, he got angry and thinks like, one person in DC is responsible.

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rsn_e_o t1_ixmm4ng wrote

Anybody can make money in the short term through luck. But almost nobody on planet earth can outperform large indexed in the long run.

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Karnezar t1_ixmnhm2 wrote

You're missing the point.

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rsn_e_o t1_ixmsx6h wrote

No sorry I got your point, thought I’d add the why your dad was wrong

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