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Re:Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Ret... by mywittyname on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:43PM (#32089133)
People tend to not appreciate the struggles that the people before us had. We are looking at their situation with the absolute knowledge that things got better.

We distort the lives of those in the past much in the same way do the people we follow on social media.

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Re:Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Ret... by nostrademons on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:49PM (#32091431)
Also survivorship bias. We tend to forget the people that died penniless and alone.
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