It’s hard to believe that what started as a joke in the tiny corner of the internet about a giraffe and an eVTOL, has now turned into a legitimate investing community that’s run by a seven-time mental patient. Most people in my situation don’t get second chances to make a difference, because they’re either in prison, dead, or drifting so far inside their own LaLa Land that they wouldn’t know Tinkerbell from a terrapin, much less a multi-million-dollar opportunity in the stock market.
So, I just wanted to say thank you for reading the blog, because it’s given me a reason to try to keep my head screwed on my shoulders.
And also, being a person who struggles with dyslexia—reading disorder and disorder of written expression…well, I guess I know how hard it is to learn something difficult that involves numbers. And it absolutely chaps my ass that the people who are experts with these sorts of things either can’t, or won’t, talk on a 5th-grade reading level so everyday folks in my neck of the woods can have access to the markets too.
Instead, most of my friends and family, who do save, are paying someone else a big fat fee to manage their money. And that should change.
Hopefully, this blog might give a few people the confidence to try to improve their lives.
Regardless, the CountryDumb sub has been a wild experiment we’ve tried to perfect on the fly, so I realize it hasn’t been perfect, but I do hope you’ve found the community useful. Trying to trade live and react to the day’s headlines is challenging, but I know for me, it was always a lot easier to learn by doing than listening to lectures or reading dense copy about the stock market.
And if I can make things a little less intimidating, and even fun/entertaining for the bartender, single mom, or janitor, I’m happy to help.
Hopefully, we’ll all see the benefits one day, even if it’s just a good laugh among friends.
Enjoy the holiday. And cheers to good ole Benjamin!
-Tweedle
