Ha, interesting parallel!A lot of this stuff reminds me of the legend of Milo of Croton, the athlete who "simply" lifted a baby calf... every day... and, as a logical consequence, at the end of four years was able to lift a full-grown cow....Imagine being able to strictly stick to a 50/50 US/intl with only rebalancing while faithfully contributing the same % of your income no matter what from age 20 to age 65. Then spending down that in retirement while sticking to the same portfolio no matter what from age 65 to 95. No one in the history of investing has likely ever done that. But it is easy enough to do a computer simulation that does.
That ought to be a fourth Zeno's Paradox. If you are strong enough to lift a calf one day, logically the additional weight is so small you must be able to lift it the next day, so by mathematical induction you can lift an infinitely heavy cow...
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