Pointless story: Years ago, when I was young and penniless - as opposed to old and penniless - I somehow got subscribed to a finance newsletter I’d get in the mail every week
In retrospect, knowing what I know now it was clearly a 50/50 scam
WildGorillaMan
Years ago PIMCO's Bill Gross wrote a blog post describing retail investors as "plankton": individually very small, but in their total masses they're a crucial part of the marine ecosystem
Unspoken is the reality that it's the destiny of plankton to be eaten, en masse