What’s the point of investing in stock if almost all of them will not beat the market?

genuine question.

i am trying to purchase some companies I believe in, but the volatility is high and risk even higher… and many of them will not beat the market in 5/10Y anyway.

so I am asking myself: what’s the point?

I think that 99.9% of people here never beaten the market for 5-7 consecutive years (which is what many hedge funds do not do anyway..) so - genuinel- what’s the point?

can normal people be smarter than Wall Street IB? mostly not, or we will probably work as MD at Goldman and not write here..

what‘s your take?

edit: got it, people are pretentious and over optimistic.

but then what about the dearest Warren? He did not beat the market over the last 10-15y Because of tech… but losing 10-15y is quite a lot of time..