Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make?
by wolco on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:29PM
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If someone tells you to buy something and you risk your money you are responsible and can claim you are self-made. There is a lot of free advice if you followed all of it you would probably be broke or dead.
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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make?
by megaremote on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:47PM
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If you have access to someone is giving out good investment advice, you are better off than 99.9999% of people.
It's as hard to know whether the person is giving good investment advice as it is to give good investment advice yourself, though. So generally, it's not very helpful.
Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make?
by IggleSniggle on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @10:13PM
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...doesn't this just reinforce that having family connections matter more? Are you more likely to follow the advice of your family or some stranger? If your family connections have insight and/or inside knowledge of markets, aren't you more likely to accidentally take good advice than the average joe? You're still not immune to bad advice, but you have a higher percentage chance of having higher quality information to act on.