Hello Community, let's talk about investment, let's talk about the future, let's talk about gambling...

Recently I read a phrase that said something like "Every investment is really a bet on the future", and first when I read it I thought "I really don't agree with what the person who wrote this article says", however later I continued reading and after finishing it, I said, wow, in reality the quality of security in any investment is relative, and we know that although many times the hopes usually cloud the reason a little, but, the experience hits and teaches you many times in a convincing way...

I have come to some conclusions from that reading that I did some days ago in relation to this topic of investments, I would like to share them with you and know what you think about it, of course, I will not say that I am 100% right, but at least at this moment it is part of my thoughts about it, let's start...

But let's see the next concept, I share it because I thought it was quite right, and in line with what I'm proposing:

"An investment, in the economic sense, is a placement of capital for future profit. This placement is a choice that resigns an immediate benefit for a future one and, generally, unlikely." _Source

The last word in that definition is IMPROBABLE, yes, doesn't that seem right to you?

Seeing what we do today with our money or even our time, because it's not just about investing money, spending time on something in the hope that it will give us some economic benefits later on is also an investment...

Let's say I have 50,000 dollars, and I could buy a house and even a car here in Colombia, and I say to myself, I better invest in a bakery or a pharmacy, or both, after a year or two, or a little more I could (in theory) live worth that.

Of course, logic tells me that a bakery because it is a food or feed business could not fail, and even a drugstore because it sells something that is of prime necessity (medicine) should not fail either. So I decide to invest that money I have, that 50,000 dollars (I wish I really had it, ha, ha, ha) and I stop buying that house and that car I could buy...

But it turns out that the political conditions in my country are not the best, and an authoritarian government takes power and literally ends up appropriating many businesses with the excuse that it is for "the good of the nation", it will seem exaggerated or absurd, but I know that if it can happen, in fact in Venezuela it happened...

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