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Ah, good insight about the Nazi party men with power, not soldiers everywhere. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing.

I’m guessing it felt a lot like the video games and books describe living in a fascist regime

Soldiers are everywhere, and you do your best to not stand out for any reason.

You are always worried about someone turning you in on false accusations.

You have to hide your joy, and save it for only the deepest parts of your home.

You make it appear you have knowledge, but you don’t want to share on the social network. Hmm.

How should we address you so you feel like we are worthy of learning from you?

Who are you?

You’re grilling OP on something they already said they have little experience with. OP is asking questions to learn, and the grilling is detrimental to that.

Getting yourself involved in a local charity will do more good for the world than what a normal person’s amount of money can do in any type of ETF.

I understand the moral desire to choose responsible companies.

I “interviewed” some advisors before I knew of ETFs. They asked if I had brand preferences, like Coke vs Pepsi, or McD vs Taco Bell, so that I could avoid investing in companies that I didn’t like. From that I realized those types of investors just cared about getting me into any stock to turn commissions and not about my personal income growth. I was way too small to affect anything, but I could lose out on income based on my personal flavor preference.

So I would say the same about picking socially responsible ETFs. What is socially responsible is completely up to some person and will likely not align with your preferences.

And after participating in many studies in college, and just life, I’ve learned that at large scales, when it comes to your pocketbook, the large majority of the time, the non-ultra-rich person should assume the system will go to selfish people over good-for-the-group people.

So, unless you are investing billions and trying to create the change yourself single handedly, just choose the ETF that works best for your pocketbook.

The amount of ownership, responsibility, and promotion you get of the evil a large corporation is doing through an ETF is basically non-existent, at the average human scale.

Ah, so that means you don’t live in Russia or North Korea. The toddler has thrown a lot of tantrums.

Looks exciting! Gotta remember to keep updating OpenStreetMaps!

Because you mentioned taking notes and manual tracking, maybe a note taking or wiki application like Obsidian with its plugins.