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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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And stock options.
Dividend reinvestment, index funds, and someone in charge not trying to steal all our money.
That used to be the secret recipe
It'll be interesting to see if it stands up to the test of time. For better or worse, I replaced my VTI index ETF with VTV to avoid the highest p/e offending tickers.
It sucks that I spent my whole life following the rules. Saving my money. Making low risk investments to provide for my family and our future.
And it’s all being stolen now.
Steal what people have to lose and they'll start acting like they've nothing left to lose...
The sheer unfairness of it stings and festers, I agree and feel the same as you. There's some solace in knowing there was never really anything I could have done differently, except perhaps lived a little more decadently, although I'm not sure that would have made me much happier at the time and probably would have made me even more poorly prepared, mentally, for the austerity to come.
My parents were strategic geniuses for having this book in the house when I was a kid. I believe it helped my slow lifetime acceptance of the 'life is no fair' fact.
And The Game. Wait, you can't!
I lost the game