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Mr. Chris Umiastowski wrote an interesting article about drop in Netflix’s stocks which happened recently. He claims Netflix could still be “the dominant subscription service for original and licensed TV programming around the world”. However, I am interested by his point that parents should teach kids to think about long-term investments in stocks. He considers them as “young investors who may utilize tax shelter and generates a long-term market-average 9-per-cent return”.

He uses Netflix as the example relates to the young people who are most familiar with technology trends, which I agree. He also shows his support in this stock crash and believes Netflix’s future remains bright. Based on my understanding, he might be disappointed about the current investors who do not consider Netflix’s long-term performance and think that young investors would think in a different way. It makes sense but do young people really need to learn to invest for now? I don’t think so. Why don’t they use this money going to university and learn other skills? Besides, a large quantity of their money comes from parents. It is not that easy to make profit, thus it is very likely for being wasted.

I think whether young people should invest or not, might mainly depends on their own interest and passion. They do not need to be rush, as they may want to have their own savings instead of putting it into the stock market.