... I'm not going to squander a life's savings on it, but when I here/see people say that "if you'd have bought Amazon" or whatever in the beginning, a $1,000 would be $1M today...
Beware of the law of unintended consequences. Anyhow, when I was a very young child, apparently my father put all his money into a South Sea scam. Lost our home. Lost everything. Luckily, his brother had a hovel in the Shetland Islands where we could stay. Now, here's where the law of unintended consequences comes in: My father's job was to take care of the sheep on my uncle's farm. My father was a rather dour man, but after a week tending sheep, he started coming back to the hovel at the end of the day with a smile on his face. He seemed happy for a man who had lost it all and he sure slept well. Now my mom, who basically was a calm, unflappable person also began to experience a personality change. She became irritable, short-tempered and weirdly kind of jealous--which seemed crazy to me. I mean, it was only him, her and some sheep--what was there to be jealous about?