Its the mentality that makes me mad. I studied it. I excelled in my finance classes, which divided their attention between real estate and options. I hate it all. They tell you you have to do it to not lose to inflation, but then roll right into how to gain advantage using debt, and its limitless, and you can write off expenses and get out of taxes - great, but taxes are paid, either directly or by debt, and these people build their whole lives around being the exception and taking advantage, and then justify it like psychopaths, which they are, saying you have to do it to beat inflation. They could have bought gold and beat inflation. They could have started a business with a real service and easily more than beat inflation. Instead they did the most parasitic thing they could find in the whole economy.