We're on the verge of a massively unprecedented economic collapse, why the hell would anybody think this is a good time to invest in the stock market? I'm only interested in land, food, water purification, 3d printers, and cryptos. Everything else is an illusion.
Actually some economies has already started to recover (USA especially).
Stock markets for speculators might be bad places to invest now but if you are looking for dividend income for the rest of your life, there are some good stocks to buy.
Advantage of a dividend paying stock over land for instance is that once you have purchased a stock you just enjoy the dividend income for the rest of your life pretty much while land you need to cultivate or rent for some other people (read: more hassle).
A dividend paying stock portfolio is kind of "extra salary" for you. I know it sounds much much more boring than exciting crypto world or 3d printers etc but it is all about how one can become financially free at some point of a life once your dividend paying stock portfolio is paying enough of dividends.
My original idea was to build a small dividend income which will be led to Unobtanium "for ever at any given price" thus enabling at some point very high price for 1 UNO.