因此，投资的严峻讽刺是，我们投资者作为一个群体不仅没有得到我们付出的东西，而且我们得到了我们没有得到的东西。因此，如果我们不付出任何代价，我们就会得到一切。

"We are all stories in the end."

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.