Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
“ I feel great anguish over that issue. It is something that I have thought about every day of my life for 20 years running now.”
So you have left your family in this situation and know that, yet you have done nothing about getting a job when you have more than enough hours in the day to work a job and still do all the rest of what you want to do. You haven’t given any excuse for that which any sane person would agree with.
I’ll have enough time for both once the book is finished. Until then, it would be wrong to take time away from the book just to bring in money. Bringing in money helps me and a small number of others. Opening every site on the internet to honest posting re the past 41 years of peer-reviewed research helps and protects millions and millions of people.
I wish there were five of me, you know? That would make things easy. There’s only one of me, just like with everybody else. I didn’t ask to get pulled into this thing. It’s something that happened to me. Who would think that making a simple observation thst a retirement study posted at some guy’s web site lacks a valuation adjustment would bring on a 20-year smear campaign? If that is what life presents to you, you have to figure out how to respond to it. Somehow I don’t believe that the right response is to pretend that that is in any way, shape or form normal. That’s extremely weird stuff. That tells me that I have a tiger by the tale re this one.
It’s not even just you Goons. How about all of the Normals who tolerate the behavior of you Goons? That’s the bigger issue. That tells us that we ALL have that Get Rich Quick/Buy-and-Hold urge residing within us. We had better get about the business of learning about it and figuring out how best to cope with it! Otherwise, it could kill us as a society. How the stock market works is not some trivial matter. It’s important. We have the safety of our retirements riding on it. The last 41 years of peer-reviewed research is trying to tell us something. We very much need to pay attention. I am proud to be able to say that I have been trying to get us all to pay more attention for 20 years running.
You cannot speak for all sane people, Anonymous. You are a freakin’ internet Goon! I mean, please give me a freakin’ break. It’s true that most people are improperly complacent re these matters. I’ll give you that one. But will that remain the case in the days following the next Buy-and-Hold Crisis? I do not think so. I think that a good number of people are going to look at the ocean of human misery and regret not having taken effective action sometime over the prior 41 years. I think we are as a society on the thresdhold of some amazing breakthrough advances. I sure hope so.
My best and warmest wishes to you and yours, in any event, Mr. Sane Buy-and-Hold Goon Person.
Rob
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