More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market

Post by daseiner1 » Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 10:17 PM UTC

lm28469 wrote: post #251

jondwillis wrote: post #205

At this point I’m just watching a slightly younger cohort of men repeat all of my worst digital addiction mistakes like getting inserted into the online video game -> toxic online behavior pipeline (or worse, fascism), ideologies (Musk), crypto and options gambling (thanks Reddit a la 2013 for all of the crypto communities and WSB) too much computer (ouch, my neck, arms and back.) I’m not doing particularly well, esp…

I feel like the patterns are more or less the same but the cycles are getting shorter and more pronounced. I met the son of a family friend today, he's 13, already has an opinion about the Israel/Palestine war and spent $500 in roblox so far, they're not wealthy at all. Back in my days I was stuck in the free to play parts of mmorpgs (or had to beg for months for a $5 monthly membership), playing tf2 (free) and had 0…

Post by TacticalCoder » Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 10:22 PM UTC

guelo wrote: post #296

lm28469 wrote: post #251

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I feel like the patterns are more or less the same but the cycles are getting shorter and more pronounced. I met the son of a family friend today, he's 13, already has an opinion about the Israel/Palestine war and spent $500 in roblox so far, they're not wealthy at all. Back in my days I was stuck in the free to play parts of mmorpgs (or had to beg for months for a $5 monthly membership), playing tf2 (free) and had 0…

If you don't have decades of built up propaganda it's pretty easy to see that Israel is the bad guy. The condescending "it's complicated" line is part of the propaganda telling you that you're not allowed to come to the obvious conclusion for yourself. My 10 year has figured out that Russia is the bad guy in Ukraine and that Israel is the bad guy in Gaza.

Post by defrost » Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 10:32 PM UTC

daseiner1 wrote: post #390

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #369

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> Must be nice if politics is just good and bad guys for you. Some politics are more complicated. Other politics are treated as more complicated because people get uncomfortable when you point out that they're casually endorsing-via-silence the mass murder of one group of people by another. There's nothing complicated there. If you as a nation state or standing army are obliterating an opponent that can't fight back…

That is not at all the definition of genocide. Israel is not pursuing a strategy of indiscriminate killing. Hard to take anyone seriously making such good/evil distinctions, especially when the they are not reckoning with the evil of Hamas & co. beyond “well gee shucks Palestine ain’t perfect either yall!” Only one side has the state md objective of “ethnic cleansing” and it’s not the Israelis

Post by mancerayder » Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 10:36 PM UTC

MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #335

mancerayder wrote: post #248

People want a chance to get rich. They also want excitement. Doesn't that say more about our jobs that are a) dead-end for most b) financially limiting, with a salary that goes up slowly, if at all, unless you find a new job People want the chance to win, and some meaning, and some daily purpose. No one cares anymore about the stats of "stock pickers" "day traders" and other arguments for DCAing into index funds and…

You describe the psychological motivations for gambling.

Post by dennis_jeeves2 » Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 10:42 PM UTC

Aunche wrote: post #215

dennis_jeeves2 wrote: post #148

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>Child rearing is a possible solution—it is our evolutionary “purpose” to reproduce, after all, and most people in the developed world today aren’t doing it. I doubt it, that's because to most people it does not feel purposeful, it's a chore. Most people who say it's purposeful are generally the most vocal ones, and I suspect the minority.

Chores are a great way to make you feel a sense of purpose. You can directly observe the fruits of your labor. Your kitchen is shinier after a deep clean. Your baby is no longer crying of hunger after a feeding. The same can't be said for scrolling through TikTok for hours or even a lot of employment. Sure your livelihood may depend on moving items from big boxes into little boxes, but it's hard to feel any sort of a…