Again, you are side stepping the reality that cash in the bank has never and will never be a high return investment.
I didn't even mention inflation.
Which since 1990 has totalled around 100% or 2.4% per year on average
https://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualDecimal.html
The ATO also collects around 35% (depending on the tax rates at the time and individual circumstances) of the interest earned on cash deposits.
So the real rate of return is closer to 3.3%
So $100k cash compounded monthly at 3.3% over 30 years is $268,000
However your original investment's purchasing power is halved. i.e. a basket of goods worth $100 in 1990 now costs $200.
So over 3 decades your investment has had a capital gain of only $68,000 in todays dollars.
Meanwhile if you held an ASX200 index fund you would have a capital base of around $1.2m
And be earning dividends of around $48,000 per year. So every 1.5 years you make what cash made in 30 years
Property is similar
Using your $100k to buy 1 Sydney house in 1990 for $155k at 35% LVR. Which would have been positively geared.
You would now have a capital base of $1.2m and income of around $24,000 per year.
(In reality you could have bought 3 at 80%LVR and have a base of $3.6m and income of $72k)
The point being that perhaps savers are being provided an opportunity at the moment to re-assess their investment strategy.
Oh, but that is all going to change with the big re-set right?
Well if it does. And let's say it falls by, hmmm, let's go crazy. 50% drop across the board. The true bear apocalypse comes to fruition!!
Property and share buyers would have $600,000 assets.
And savers would have $268,000 cash.
Which brings us back to greedy.
Are the above property and share buyers greedy? All they did was choose a different investment class. Sure the property buyer borrowed a small amount of funds but does that make them greedy?
Are those that amass a nest egg to self fund their retirement greedy?
Or are those that didn't and rely on a government "bail out" in retirement greedy?
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