You got it (I was going to say "nailed it" but that's becoming an LLM marker).

This is exactly what I feel about a lot of the paid investment advice out there. Compounding can make any decent alpha worth a ton, to the point that these people would be investment bankers and not advisors if they knew what they were talking about.

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ChrisMarshallNY 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There was an old ad for eTrade that basically said that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQ_W4p1XKY

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exe34 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same with get rich quick books.

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mc32 an hour ago | parent [-]

With one exception : if it teaches you how to put out get rich quick content (books or otherwise).

	▲	dylan604 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Shouldn't it be generating that content and making the money for itself? Why does it need the human at all?