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mannyrs13 said:
My dad always used to encourage me to save my money and not get into much debt. He pushed me to getting a 401k when I was eligible at my job back then. Told me to save my money instead of gambling it away playing poker or at the casino. So I had a 401k and savings which was paying decent interest rate but never got heavy into stock trading like I am now. Never took the big risk with my money and instead of getting like 1.5 or 2% interest in a year, I could've gotten that weekly or better. My dad was big on the 401k thing but never took major risks. He was good with managing money but not really using it to make major growth. My parents just worked hard and paid their house off but I believe if they would've invested more, they would've been able to be better off.

My dad used to wake up at like 2,3, or 4 in the morning to go to work and even tho he made decent money and my mom did too, but doing all that physical labor especially in his late fifties and sixty, didn't seem worth it. But he emphasized the importance of working for a good company with great benefits which he did for like over 30 years. At least he had a 401k and did some investing which I imagine my grandparents didn't really teach him about. Cuz coming with them to this country when he was 10 with my uncle, and my grandparents never speaking any English other than small shyt like "hello how are you?" that my grandmother used to say to my non Spanish speaking friends, I can't imagine they knew anything about investing. So at least my dad was able to have that.

My mom is a completely different story. Her parents were also immigrants and I don't think they taught her about investing either and even today she isn't too much of a fan of it. She doesn't like the risk involved. She has been more interested in how the market is performing lately because now that my dad is gone, his 401k is hers. But she doesn't invest at all. I'm riding in the car with her the other day talking about my dad's 401k and she says she has one but it's just sitting there. She tells me she has like 12k in it. She's in her early 60s. She asks me how much I had in mine and I said 82k and I turn 36 next month. I had way more than her 12k even before this 2020 bullrun happened so not like it was all recently. She was shocked. She lucky her and my dad paid off the house and don't have much debt but who knows what the future may bring and what expenses may come up for her. I was telling her that a lot of people from her generation aren't financially knowledgeable or ready for retirement or bothered much with investing. Things were different back then and those who invested are reaping the rewards now. It's a different era now and we gotta be thankful for the opportunities we have now and pass the knowledge on to future generations. I think back of missed investment opportunities and I'm like for what. Just gotta move on to the next play and hope to make up for it.
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Your pops sounds like one of those people that worked hard and slaved his life away for the company he worked for.

Meanwhile some kid at a computer these days plays the market and probably can generate your pops entire annual income in a month just using seed money and making trades.

I wish my pops understood that your money can work harder and more effectivly for you than you even can for yourself.

Retirement for my pops was a pension. For my generation many of us will work till the day we die and leave behind next to nothing.
 
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Eternal Tecate said:
GME fever has hit china apparently too
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Them international kats on reddit be like good job America we got you tonight and will drive it higher. Then the next day americans are like good job guys we will drive it higher. Man this stuff insane.

Don't get me wrong I been in since $17 a share and I am even like what the hell is going on out here...:mindblown:
 
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