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Why WSB Would Never Touch a Dividend Stock And Why Dividend Investors Are Fine With That

Dividends, Financial Subcultures, WallStreetBets

There is a specific type of silence that falls over WallStreetBets when someone mentions dividends. It is not hostility. It is not disagreement. It is something closer to confusion, like a room full of skydivers being asked if they have considered gardening. The activities are technically both done by humans, but beyond that, the overlap […]

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Why Real Estate Investors Look at WSB the Same Way WSB Looks at Index Funds: With Contempt

Real Estate, Financial Subcultures, WallStreetBets

There is a strange kind of symmetry in finance that nobody talks about. Every investing community has someone they look down on. And almost always, that someone is looking down on somebody else. The contempt travels in one direction, like a river that only flows downhill. At the top sits whoever thinks they are working

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Day Trading Has a Methodology. WSB Has a Vibe. The Distinction Matters More Than You Think

WallStreetBets, Financial Subcultures

There is a quiet assumption in finance that the people who take things seriously will beat the people who do not. It sounds obvious. It sounds like the kind of thing a parent would say. Work hard, study the craft, respect the process, and you will end up ahead of the person who treats the

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Why Dividend Investors Think Real Estate Is Too Much Work and Why Landlords Think Dividends Are Too Risky

Dividends, Financial Subcultures, Real Estate

There is a strange paradox in the world of income investing. Two groups of people who want the exact same thing, a steady stream of money they did not have to clock in for, have developed a deep and almost theological disagreement about how to get it. Dividend investors look at landlords and see people

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Does Publishing Your Investment Thesis on Twitter Make It Better or Worse? Value Investors Know the Answer

Growth vs Value, Financial Subcultures, FinTwit

There is a strange new ritual in modern investing. A person finds a company they like, builds a model, writes up their reasoning, and then, instead of quietly buying shares and going about their life, they post the whole thing on Twitter. Sometimes it is a thread with twenty posts. Sometimes it is a screenshot

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Decentralization as a Belief System vs. Options as a Casino: The Crypto vs. WSB Worldview

WallStreetBets, Crypto, Financial Subcultures

There is a moment that happens in almost every crypto conversation where the topic stops being money and starts being philosophy. Someone mentions Bitcoin, and within about ninety seconds you are hearing about central banks, monetary policy, the 2008 financial crisis, and the idea that money itself is a kind of illusion agreed upon by

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Cheap Stocks vs. Cheap Buildings: Value Investing Meets Real Estate

Growth vs Value, Financial Subcultures, Real Estate

There is a specific kind of person who gets excited about a stock trading below its book value. There is another specific kind of person who gets excited about a triplex in a neighborhood nobody wants to drive through yet. These two people rarely end up at the same dinner party. When they do, they

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What Does Intrinsic Value Mean When There Are No Earnings? Value Investing Confronts Crypto

Crypto, Financial Subcultures, Growth vs Value

There is a question that value investors ask before they buy anything. It is the oldest question in finance, and it sounds almost embarrassingly simple. What is this thing actually worth? Not what someone will pay for it tomorrow. Not what the chart suggests. Not what the crowd is chanting. What is the underlying business

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What John Bogle Would Have Said About Bitcoin and Why Crypto Investors Would Not Care

Bogleheads, Crypto, Financial Subcultures

John Bogle spent his entire career trying to convince people of something deeply unsexy. He wanted investors to accept that they could not beat the market, that fees were silently eating their futures, and that the most powerful force in finance was not intelligence but patience. He built Vanguard into a giant not by promising

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Why Bogleheads Look at WSB Like a Car Crash They Cannot Stop Watching

Bogleheads, Financial Subcultures, WallStreetBets

There is a particular facial expression that only exists on the internet. You have seen it. It is the look of someone who knows they should close the tab, knows nothing good will come of watching, and keeps scrolling anyway. It is the expression of a Boglehead lurking on WallStreetBets at eleven at night. They

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