Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich

Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by jopsen on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:58AM (#17530373)

I sometimes jokingly view the welfare state with high taxes as an index fund whose underlying assests is people.

I like it because there aren't many legal means by which I can invest in humans :)

And if you're trying to diversify your portfolio, why wouldn't you want to bet on humans?

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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by flatfilefan on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:20AM (#17530444)

Great way to put it! This is literally the argument for the index funds, right? You are profiting from the economic activity of all businesses in the field by paying an index share price = tax.

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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by kzrdude on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:18PM (#17530908)

Diversifying is a good notion too, since it on average has benefits even though detractors want to hold up individual counterexamples.

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