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  • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlJeff's magic money machine
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    8 months ago

    Yes, and ETFs have the best odds with pretty low, but relatively stable, returns. It’s fairly low-risk because that’s how index funds work. Retail investing is not really for me, so low-risk is the most I am comfortable with.

    In this scenario, I only need to keep the money in stocks for 1 month. It’s not like investing in crypto, I’d lose barely any of it in that time if I lost anything at all.


  • No knowledge of the financial stuff, but maybe: put most of it in a variety of ETFs, hire a financial advisor and an accountant to help you navigate the system and the taxes, then cash out and donate it.

    You spend it without giving it away. Then you give it away. Some countries give you a lot of it back at tax time if you donate to registered charities so you’ll even get something for it. I dunno, I’m a poor so maybe it wouldn’t work out, but it would be cool.


  • I don’t disagree, but I also don’t think that that’s enough on its face to determine with any certainty that muggles would “win” whatever conflict arose. An army would definitely have a tactical advantage, but wizards are presumably educated in order to be self-sufficient and many of the creature comforts they’re accustomed to can’t actually be acquired with muggle resources - at least from what we see in England, they have their own political systems, press, and currency.


  • Honestly, I only really see wizards losing immediately in England, lol. It’s canon that many wizards can use spells silently and/or without a wand, and some even create their own spells; they could likely incapacitate a soldier (or many soldiers, depending on the spell) without raising suspicion by having to aim a wand or gun.

    I dunno, Magneto gives the US Army a run for their money in X-Men - I would think a similarly talented or experienced wizard would have comparable powers.