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Laying the blame for the transparent financial manipulation we are observing at the feet of regular people (who are putting their savings into their pension funds, a system that we incentivize because of its pro social outcomes) and saying they should just opt out because they should know better, is at best callous, most people should not have to think about that issue at all.
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You seem to have misunderstood my comment.
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the problem:

The Nasdaq 100 and FTSE Russell made a rule change that allows SpaceX to enter index without mormal time for price discovery. Most index funds have rebalance day just 5 days after IPO. S&P also made rule change for S&P Total Market Index and Dow Jones US Total Stock Market Index, but left SP500 intact.

Nothing wrong with SpaceX or Anthropic getting into indexes with fair rules, this rule change is pure creed+corruption.

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>Nothing wrong with SpaceX or Anthropic getting into indexes with fair rules, this rule change is pure creed+corruption.

What evidence do you have that these rule changes are motivated by "creed" or corruption?

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What evidence do you have they are not? You've been questioning everyone, please justify your position
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> What evidence do you have they are not?

What evidence do you have that 9/11 was not an inside job?

> please justify your position

I'll cite Matt Levine from Bloomberg:

>1. In the next few months, SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI will all probably go public at massive valuations.

>2. They will be fast-tracked into the major stock indexes, because those indexes are designed to reflect the stock market, and reflecting the stock market, in 2027, will absolutely require big allocations to those three companies.

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Dude, need to @ Elon on X with a link to these comments. Pretty sure he replies to fans as dedicated as you to his cause.
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I hope Elon Musk gets some particularly nasty disease and dies a slow, painful death. He is a vile individual, as are you for attempting to associate me with him.

I'm sticking to the facts, shove your ideological struggle up your ass or go pollute a different website.

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Those funds are not whole market funds.

But there are things to say about your point too. I’ve commented on that in other threads.

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Are there really 10-100x undervalued companies listed on indexes that haven’t been noticed?
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Yes. There are probably a dozen or more across the SP500 and Russel 2000 that will 10-100x in the next 5-10 years. The trick is to be able to identify them!
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I don't understand this logic. Does whole market mean scamming companies too?
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Fun fact, both Enron and Lehman Brothers were in the S&P 500 when they went bankrupt. So yes, the whole market or even the market of the largest companies, includes some that may not be great companies. The beauty of the index is you don't have to know or care, since it'll take care of itself over time.
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>The beauty of the index is you don't have to know or care, since it'll take care of itself over time

As long as there are active investors in the market conducting price discovery. Which there always will be, just pointing out that someone has to care, even if you don’t

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Yes. That’s what passive investing is. You give money to the passive fund, the passive fund buys the market. No regard to price or any other metric.
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Also, there’s a long history of companies that people yell about being overvalued being the drivers of index returns, because one of the major drivers is growth rate, whereas retail investors tend to look mostly at current state.
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