Tyler Crowe

And Matt, you can go first.

Here we go.

I'm climbing up on the soapbox.

I'm going to get really high and mighty.

We might even need to put some patriotic music in the background while I do this.

But look, here is my thesis, and yes, I think you should vote your shares.

If you own individual shocks, you should care, you should read your proxy filings, you should vote on everything that you have.

Again, as Jett mentions in the question, you are an owner of the company.

You're actually putting in the extra effort to not just buy a diversified ETF and go sit on our butts.

That would be great.

There's plenty of options to do that out there in the market.

But if we are making the choice to invest in individual companies and be...

fractional owners of that company's management works for us and it's our duty to vote on the results of this business and how in the things that they're asking us to do vote on the board of directors vote on executive compensation do i really care who the auditor is no but that's that's maybe there's somebody that does but look this is kind of one of those things where it's like

It is the one time that we as individual investors can hold management to account.

And yes, maybe my little peons of an ownership in a stock doesn't really matter to the overall voting.

But it's just like some moral craw that I have, that if I'm going to own a company, it is my obligation in some way to vote for it.

One of my favorite writers of all time was Benjamin Graham.

He had a whole chapter dedicated to your duties as an investor.

to vote your shares and participate in the companies that you own.

I know I'm standing on a very, very lonely island these days when it comes to investing in individual stocks and actually voting your proxy shares.