Playing monopoly is definitely a viable option if it makes you happy. The best investments in life are those that benefit mental and/or physical health.
Some people will spend a lot of money to have the benefit of some control over their ambience. Home location choices. Choice to have a personal vehicle vs. public transportation. Purchasing expensive noise cancelling headphones...
My personal history of owning individual stocks has been very disappointing. If you ever decide you want to invest in the equity market, I recommend exchange traded funds (ETFs) that follow an index and have a really low expense ratio. My favorite exchange traded funds are VT, VTI, VTV, VXUS, BND, and BNDX. VBR may be a good one if you ever want exposure to smaller companies.
I fortuitously moved all my VTI into VTV a couple weeks ago to divest myself of TSLA, and over the past two days have been actively keeping the balance of my 60/40 equities/bonds portfolio by selling a little bit of BND and BNDX to get some more VTV as it sunk. Didn't need to modify the VXUS portion.
Sure was nice to have those bond portions to assuage the decline.
I think the implicit assumption is if they didn't take the offer ("easy way"), they'd then get the "hard way," in which the US receives the same end result, but no one in Greenland gets the million. It churns the bile in my guts that anyone on earth is even having this discussion with a modicum of seriousness. Greenland is for Greenlanders.
I had to do a tripletake when I saw your post. Yours look almost exactly like mine, down to the exact same facial expressions. It felt surreal to see someone else posting pictures of my cats in an unfamiliar house.
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