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I know a guy who bought a plot of almost worthless land an hour out of town fenced jt and bought a bunch of goats. We all thought he was insane.
10 years later he is retired at 40 because it turns out that certain communities will pay very good money for organic free range goat.
There's multiple avenues how you can increase your wealth, if you have investment capital, and nothing goes wrong.
Two very big ifs, sadly.
Yeah, I also know a goat farmer in my neighborhood.
In the same 10 years, she faced an expensive lawsuit from someone who wanted her land, an epidemic that destroyed her herd, animals dying from people feeding them the wrong plants through the fence, Covid forcing her to close the farm to visitors, and other hardships.
She's barely out of the woods now, but definitely much worse off than if she had invested the money into stocks.
Yup, stocks are almost zero effort and have an expected return of 10-12% long term. Everything else is a job and is dependent on how good you are at managing it.
>have 200,000
>invest in stock market
>many years go by
>you now have 220,000
Stock market isn't an infinite money glitch, you have to be rich to start out with or you won't see any meaningful return to your money until you're 70
If you invest in the S&P 500, your money will double approximately every 7 years, or 10 years if you adjust for inflation.
If you invest $7k (max IRA contribution) at the beginning of every year (makes math easier) and get 7% (conservative, inflation adjusted return) from age 25, you'll have $1.2M by 65, and you only invested $280k. That's over 4x growth! If you have $200k and don't add to it, you'll have $3M inflation adjusted dollars after 40 years.
Investing isn't infinite, but if you're consistent, you'll inevitably become wealthy.
If you've got the time and the energy and the stomach to handle birthing and raising live goats, it is very profitable... for the person who got a large low-interest loan to set up the farm. Significantly less so for the people doing the actual agricultural labor.