There are many worse things to be addicted to in our culture, and if you bought either or both of those stocks years ago you would have a very handsome profit right now.
Re cults and the
“cult” of Stocks:
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/finance/20121227/US.Investor.Revolt/
Bill Gross, the co-head of bond investment firm Pimco, has probably done more than anyone to popularize the notion that stocks will prove disappointing in the coming years. But he says what is dying is not stocks, but the “cult” of stocks.