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> I don't know why people get caught up in the "ethical and moral baggage"... You do however have the ability to control what your world looks like, when you are sitting on bags of money. Sail in the direction of the wind, not against it.

Make money, if people get hurt, it was a likely outcome, so why not benefit financially?

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When the options are either wake up in a shitty world and have no money or wake up in a shitty world and have a lot of money I don’t know why people choose the former. Maybe some sort of “survivors guilt”.

> When the options are either wake up in a shitty world and have no money or wake up in a shitty world and have a lot of money I don’t know why people choose the former.

I am not seeing how this is helpful to you or anyone really, but respect that we all have different experiences.

If your options are either to have no money or bags of money, you’re in a casino. To play the stock market well, you need an investor’s mindset not a casino mindset. I say this with 12 years of investment experience and 20% CAGR. Odds are, your risk management and portfolio are not well risk/return adjusted. It’s important to many people that the world they retire in is the world they want to live in. Most millionaire investors say it was harder to get to $100k than it was to get from $100k to $1M anyways. Often, if you make it that far, you can make it the rest of the way through the same compound interest.

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