its very easy to say “just don’t play the game” when you own a home…congratulations you already won compared to the vast majority of the country.

people really do over-complicate this whole investing thing, just operate on a wider timeline, utlize a modicum of common sense, and know what you trade. shit is easy as fuck, there’s a reason every investorbro out there thinks they’re a god…as long as it’s a bull market (money printer is in full swing) all these rich cunts across the country are just gambling with their every paycheck leveraged to the tits.

learn how the system works and you can take their $ real fucking easy, or if you want to be “ethical” you can also just read some Buffet/Munger and use the system as it was supposed designed.

the game is rigged, either learn how it works or stay stuck in the labor trap till you die.

the game is rigged, playing fair just means your stuck in the labor trap forever. you either have the capital/knowledge to start trying to work for yourself, or you stay a wage-slave for life

unironically, just leave the US. plenty of countries/international research orgs are pouching all sorts of US-intelligencia right now.

a box fan and a matching-size furnace filter.

read Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, before taking youtubers or any other online financial/“investing” advice. was written over 100 years ago and it does better than anything else at providing…perspective…on how our (especially US) markets function

the US financial markets are the wild west, they operate more like a casino than a market, it’s why the rest of the world tolerates our shit…lack of regulation plus a largely under-educated population means the country as a whole serves as easy exit liquidity.

read a variety of books on whatever subject/area of “investing” your interested in, not videos. munger/buffet are good to follow along for most people, and to keep you from the worst gambling pitfalls. anyone selling courses and shit like that is at-best full of themselves (because everyone is a genius in a bull market) or worse a scammer looking for easy marks.

alot of big universities will have free online courses available for all sorts of subjects as well btw.

and last but not least…debt is 100% a trap, it is only when you understand this that debt becomes a tool

when people hunt down liquidity and don’t put it back in the casino

most of the rest of the world - “someones got to be my exit-liquidity, might as well be the american working class”

no, people hated each other before the internet…even moreso than they do now. believe it or not, media giants has an easier time bubbling people pre-internet

not physical innocence

this was what i needed, more or less confirms what i already suspected. got a lot of stuff to add to reading list i guess

enough people use crypto now that it’s unlikely to crater entirely…unless western governments finally kick out the neolib types and take back their country’s from private equity/big business

there certainly were a lot of suspiciously timed, and very risky, trades made immediately before the crashes

if you remove the AI circular spending bubble, we are 100% in a recession already.

and that’s if you trust the data, which arguably has been far too fucked with to be useful for years now.

do you understand just how incredibly easy money is to get in a bull market/bubble? they print a literal infinite amount of the stuff, and the richest of our society gamble with it at digital casinos so they can watch lines go up instead of spending it in the real world.

if you learn the rules to that casino, you would never have to work another day in your life.

that is to say, there are only two types of jobs in this world…those you do for money, and those you do because you no longer need money. this “character” you speak off still believes they can find the latter…perhaps tell them, honestly, that…no, that job your working at now will not bring them any greater fulfillment.

if they are looking for fulfillment from their job they should look elsewhere as to not waste anymore time (the only real finite resource, on the time-scale of any singular human)

counterpoint, girls love puppies

everyone loves puppies

this gives me the idea for a movie about the uh…liberation…of Afghanistan by the taliban, back in trumps first term.

probably loads of good story during that event, especially with how so much of the government was just the taliban in suits, entire cities “falling” without a single shot

would probably come off better as a documentary, do…people still make those?

you ever heard of the KLF?

what do people use instead?

smacks face

I will keep smacking your face until you stop me

repeat until free will discovered