Yesterday, u/hibernating_brain posted this.

It brought up an interesting question: what is the information here worth?

I did not do an in-depth investigation, but between the links in the sidebar, u/Living_Granger's posts, u/UberBotMan's daily posts, the contributions by a multitude of members, etc. I think a safe estimation is somewhere in the low five-figures. More specifically, over the past year, this subreddit provided an individual with access to information valued somewhere in the low five-figures.

Granted, roughly $1,000 of that is the book Margin of Safety which u/_CastleBravo_ kindly provided this subreddit with (among a great deal of other books and documents).

It is particularly remarkable when put into perspective. Before the internet, many here may have found themselves paid members of their local investment/trading club. Certainly a useful organization but clearly lacking in many ways.

Even in the 1980s and 1990s, when the internet became easily accessible, the content was severely limited.

In fact, here is an example of what many of us would have been looking at in 1993:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/misc.invest/uCXMsDYzlDs/Fs0MegWQZS8J