Subnostr

Financial markets are one of the most retarded things I invested incalculable time studying.

Just to come to the same conclusion my mother told me before starting to go deep into it: “it’s just gambling”.

She was right. And it’s worse than that, it’s a gambling where all the odds are against you because the game is carefully manipulated to crush you.

Not only that, it’s also a mechanism to launder billions of dollars and for criminals to hide behind corporate legal fictions.

Opt out, buy bitcoin, take self custody.

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I was always told the same thing, "it's fancy gambling".

Right. The markets sell the illusion of opportunity, while quietly stacking the odds against you and moving billions in the shadows

It's not gambling if you buy and hold. Daytrading is gambling.

If you buy and hold bitcoin.

90 % of the stocks go to zero in really terms (gold / re/ commodities).

Stocks are a scam. Incentives are not aligned.

Yes, there's no second best. But for normies, it's a better approach than holding cash or fixed income assets.

If you bough in the stock market during the 2000s you’ll be around 60% to 70% down in real term a

in a post-fiat world financial markets would be good

If the incentives are aligned they can be,

For sure