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Brin ([personal profile] brin_bellway) wrote 2021-10-04 02:58 am (UTC)

(Also, though it's more of a zeitgeist with no standout examples to point to: personal-finance blogs that, just, casually talk about decades-long plans, as if society in 2050 will be fundamentally the same as it is now.

(Like, don't get me wrong, it *might* be, and even some of the possibilities where it isn't still place value on having a well-stocked retirement fund! It's worth preparing for that outcome! But a lot of the bloggers brush off the idea of a wider view of diversification, or never even seem to have thought about it at all.))

†I literally saw a guy--I think it might have been Nick Maggiulli?--mention "investing in canned goods" as if it were something proverbially absurd and the sole province of Crazy Prepper People™, even though canned goods are an *amazing* investment *including* in normal circumstances.

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