You forgot the bitterness too. There's hedge fund managers out there who make funny money per day but if someone comes along who happens to make more than the standard 10% index tracker it's obviously all lies just because they can't do it.
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I pay a financial adviser and he's worth every penny. But a lot of folk wouldn't do that even though they could easily make money by doing so as they think it's some form of dark art and money for nothing. It takes money to make money and you have to be willing to put your neck on the line and pull the trigger, a lot of people can't do that for fear of losing. When someone else manages to do it, others can't believe it's real and then they FOMO into an overpriced tech stock and then say it's all a scam because they keep losing money.
It's hardly rocket science. Energy prices are going up and are at crazy levels. The dutch company I invested in at one point the dutch gas market was at 3000% price increase. People in the UK are complaining about a 400% increase to put into perspective how much money they were making. People in the UK are crying for them to be taxed more. This company was making £8m per day in profit. It's valued at less than £1 billion. It's still making funny money today. Even though the price is up 500% I am still buying more shares in it every month as I fully expect it to be worth £10 a share within 2-3 years.
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