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> The fact that the indexes don't have our back is a huge problem

how could an index fund possibly have anyone's back? It's in index of the top 500 publicly traded companies. that's all. If SpaceX or Tesla or Anthropic or anyone else fall out of the top 500 then they fall off the index by definition.

I think a lot of these comments are coming from extreme emotions associated with AI and Elon Musk and not so much the way things work and will play out.

Because they are breaking all their own rules by removing the seasoning and profitability requirements to fast-track this stock in.
No, that's not all. They had additional criteria that they changed right when big-name companies wanted to get added. Now, if they had historically gone by pure market cap, and these companies met that, then you'd have a point.