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index fund

instead of betting on one company, you buy a tiny slice of all of them at once.

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like you're 5

don’t pick one cupcake and hope it’s good — buy a crumb of every cupcake in the bakery. some flop, most don’t, and you never cry over one bad cupcake.

use it in a sentence

“i stopped stock-picking and just auto-buy an index fund every payday.”

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historical long-run average, not a promise. boring wins surprisingly often.

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