• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    In regular people terms, it’s like if I saved up $100 and spent it to buy shares of an index fund. Yeah, it’s going to take a while to make back the money I spent, but those $100 didn’t just disappear. I can sell those shares and get back approximately what I originally spent on it.