Jim you don't win over 30 starting in the year 2000, as I proved. You were behind January 1, 2015, you're behind now, and you'll continue to be behind six years ago, in any path where the 15 year average return remains more than 0% (it's 11% now 10 years in). Are you illiterate?
(And beating 3.5% isn't a guarantee either, it's just historically extremely likely)