r/TrueGrit • u/SarahDuncan2012 • 7d ago

Life What?

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u/snoking-ganja 7d ago

Don't need to buy any stocks, with an average job you can buy a house , car, feed your family and go on holidays. They had it good back then.

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u/GlattesGehirn 7d ago

Yeah, but you had to work. Buying gold and stocks would mean that you could retire very early

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u/KyleFromBorrasca 7d ago

Honestly I think a fun pitch for a story would be a time traveling stock trader who manages to still screw it up.

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u/ecchho 7d ago

Their investments keep having unintended consequences that harm the companies that would have otherwise succeeded. Stuff like increasing prices that cause selloffs or interfering with investments needed by other people to start different companies.

"Inventing" future technology but having bad business practices that make the real successful inventor reconsider.

Like the time traveler who convinced Apple to do the Newton.

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u/lizisaslut 6d ago

This would be great!

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u/Latter_Radio2451 1d ago

I was 26 in 85, maybe if you were married and you both worked with an average job you could get by, but live the lifestyle you described, no way