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What, you don't live hundreds of years? Wow, you poor poor darling.
Back to Planet earth.
A normal retirement savings span is say 40 years. You're the smart one, you tell me which 40-year span is the one that would have been bad for stocks and great for stupid cash? Yeah, sure there can be say a year or two that stocks are bad and if we only lived a year or two then you'd be right.
No need to be condescending. Easy enough. There are many of them.
1915 > 1942
1916 > 1948
1915 > 1942
1915 > 1943
1927, 8, or 9 > to 1973 or 1975 or 1977 or 1978 (that’s 3E4) which is 81 instances.
So there are 85 examples for you.