The mantle of greatness on my shoulders is getting heavy. It sounds horrible but I totally get why so many of us fall to either affairs, alcohol, or divorce.
Its just SO unrelenting. Its a nightmare. I have no energy to do anything after a 60 hour work week, cooking, cleaning, walking youngest to bed until 11 pm and then waking up at 5. One day off a week. I’m just so fking over it 🤢
I have a small portfolio of space company stocks and keep them as a reminder to avoid active investing.
My boring old Total Market (essentially S&P500) index funds have done much better in the same time as my space stocks.
Every time the market spikes for gold (as it is now), I run the projections to see if I would have been better off in gold than buying equities instead. Gold has never once shown to be the better investment as vehicle for appreciation.
Gold is not win more, it’s lose less.
A hedge against inflation, and it works now because the market is stupid, imo, with the ai bubble when, not if, it pops.
I know that in itself is speculation, but i really do think market fundamentals have gone out the window since crypto first entered the picture, its seems like everything is all about exploiting anything remotely disruptive, without actually feasible foresight into where it could lead.