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Has there ever been a real precedent for a society where a majority of them provide for themselves by investing in the stock market over living off of a wage?

And I bet it is a combination of the two. Just I think it is probably 0.1% of because people don't do something they've generally never done and 99.9% that real wages haven't kept up with inflation.




No one was suggesting that a majority of society lives purely off investment income, just that investing can provide benefits for working class people too.




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