Back in the day... when the dot-com bubble burst. Someone did the math...

If you had put all the money that you'd invested in Nortel into buying beer. At this point in time, the proceeds from returning the empty beer bottles for the deposit is worth more than what you could possibly get back from the stocks.

But ... as you so brilliantly pointed out ... if you'd instead hidden it in your basement ... well ... you'd still have that money.

Genius😀.