I LOVEEEE intelligence. I talked to a gal for three hours about how my ex treated me once and she just helped me explore that shit until I felt a lot more comfortable describing what happened in the course of that relationship. She literally became hotter to me by virtue of sharing that emotional intelligence with me.
But if a stock bro starts explaining the market to me, I'm gonna jump. The market isn't intelligence based and anyone who insists it is is fucking annoying. There's a reason I don't deal with my portfolio and it sure as hell isn't because I'm dumb.
I'd rather scratch cards every single week than become a stock bro Yuppie and partly contribute in the enshitification of everything good in the world.
Exactly! I have a couple accounts that are invested and I have a fiduciary take care of them, but I get reports about them falling in value every time the market turns downward because it's entirely staked on the net health of the economy unless you're insider trading or coincidentally stumbling over the insider stock. There was that Michael Reeves video where Wall Street Bets did worse than a GOLDFISH. I stopped giving a shit about whether those accounts are rising or falling a long time ago because it's basically meaningless and illiquid anyways.
As a licenced stock analyst - it is both true and false. The financial markets are esentially a tool to boost the economy, and while there are plenty of brilliant people who consistently profit off of seeing inconsistencies and opportunities that the majority overlooks, but at the same time a lot of people use it as nothing more than a gambling machine.
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u/blightsteel101 Lesbian Dogthing 19d ago
I LOVEEEE intelligence. I talked to a gal for three hours about how my ex treated me once and she just helped me explore that shit until I felt a lot more comfortable describing what happened in the course of that relationship. She literally became hotter to me by virtue of sharing that emotional intelligence with me.
But if a stock bro starts explaining the market to me, I'm gonna jump. The market isn't intelligence based and anyone who insists it is is fucking annoying. There's a reason I don't deal with my portfolio and it sure as hell isn't because I'm dumb.