Post #20697 by RaplhCramden on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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As did all his live my father (welder) and my mother (secretary), without ever having had the slightest chance to "invest wisely" (as there was not one $ to invest after living expenses), to belong to that "0.1%" or any other bracket above the lowest one quoted by banksy.

And now, here you are with your fancy stocks and your fifty-dollar ideas about how to make more money by investing your money.

The economic surplus of your parents' lives appears to be embodied in their investment in you!

Given a choice between improving the past and improving the future your parents seem to have chosen improving the future and it seems to have worked out. Got to love them for that! IMHO.

I hope the future belongs to people like your parents, and their descendents. I am very afraid that trying to improve the past is some kind of sucker's game.

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