Why should the poor give a damn about the stock market, though?
Every time a bubble pops, they're the one's left holding the tab.
How many of those 401ks and IRAs were wiped out and the "owner" left with nothing after Madoff, housing bubble, etc.
IMO, it's a fools errand as a figurative little person on the totem pole to babysit the wealth of the rich who leave them dangling in front of the fan that just had shit splatter all over it.
I hated math in middle-school and early high-school. It was boring and rote.
But proofs based math, and learning how to think of math as a language, instead of a collection of overly specific "solutions" crammed into my head by teachers, was the key.
Every time a bubble pops, they're the one's left holding the tab.
How many of those 401ks and IRAs were wiped out and the "owner" left with nothing after Madoff, housing bubble, etc.
IMO, it's a fools errand as a figurative little person on the totem pole to babysit the wealth of the rich who leave them dangling in front of the fan that just had shit splatter all over it.