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This is going to be a silly response, but how silly is it really? You asked what you would do with your money, to grow it...

This is related to the Keynsian Beauty Contest for following fads actively instead of passively taking long positions for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

How about hiring a person to research and buy the latest shitcoins on Uniswap and Pancakeswap? I can name several in the last month that have each been up 500% in 24 hours. For example, see these:

SAFEMOON (weeks ago)

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/safemoon/

SPORE finance

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/spore-finance/

PROMETEUS token

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/prometeus/

By the time you hit these links, you may be astonished to see that the assets have risen in one day nearly half of the 900% the guy says the stock market would do in 30 years.

I mean, isn’t the goal of growth investing to get the biggest returns? This seems to be that, massively accelerated.

Then retire LOL.

But seriously... the smallest cap projects in the newest industries — especially now that trading is available to anyone with no intemediaries — presents massive opportunities for huge crowds to descend on one thing or another, and if you are early to the party you make a lot. I find it a very strange aspect of capitalism, that seems to reward meme marketing and attracting crowds to fads, rather than actual value for society.




Great! Now you have your retirement stash. You'll have to protect it for decades to come. How? Which brings you to the beginning: how do you invest your money?


The point is that your retirement stash can at that point just be kept in regular assets for decades because you have made a ton of gains through a fast sprint. Or you can take some of that to hire various money managers to repeat this strategy for years whenever the opportunities present themselves.




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