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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also availability. Nowadays you can buy stocks for free on your phone... 20 years ago you had to physically go to your bank, pay extremely high fees, and probably get scammed into buying some expensive fund because you didn't have the possibility to easily research stuff on your own...