Loooooong time lurker and former r/cth poster and i think i want to make a quick sober ama for your pleasure...
In 2016 i was unemployed and didn't really have any prospects and I felt like i was at the end of the line with my life as I was spiraling heavily and had recently broken up with my gf of 4 years, but then things turned around for me when I was told by my parents I should let them buy me stock because of the benefits... back then I think starting amount was like 39k which then grew to 110k after 5 years of sitting in the account. But it didn't align with my politics since I consider myself a communist and being a capitalist is inherintly evil since you're basically an element of the ruling class and its empire. So i was already putting off touching the stockbroker account but i also looked into B corporations which are the companies that are stationed around health food stores and since I have an admiration for good food and cooking was my "passtime" if you call it that for the time I was unemployed, then I figured what the hell and accepted the gift.
Long story short I got the stock and then started accruing returns all while semi hating myself for it but also being happy that i had more money than i ever imagined in my life, and since i was living with my roommates rent was split three ways and it was onl 650 dollars total so 4k for my first year on top of all the activism i was doing i eventually ended up making over 30k a year which went into my portfolio (valued at 200k now). The job has some taxing that comes with it especially with the politics involved but tbh most of the people i know who invest are kinda alright and aren't really chuddy. Everyone (or at least 97%) of the stockholders questions their social position because it's unearned pay for the ammount of work and time you put in, that on top of how bad things got during the Floyd protests, the stockbroker company got bought out but i couldn't say anything but just stand there. It was pretty rank and file work and the board treated it Like it was just a minor nuisance like "alright guys do this shit again and just be a body don't do anything bad you're being watched by the world right now" and we hated it, at least 11% of my stocks dropped during 2019-2020 because it was too much for them to handle. I would have sold off everything but I'm looking to get around 30 years of paying a mortgage one way or another.
I guess i'll make this an AMA because i'm sure it's rare to have a capitalist around here and maybe a first. I know we all hate capitalists but i think I may be able to indulge you for a moment in getting rid of weapons stocks and BDS. I can talk about how I was nearly struck by a bullet and the time my partner turned up drunk while on ambien and valium and got taken into inpatient.
I’ll probably start replying to this post whenever I next go online I’ll try to answer to the best of my abilities, cheers!
