Re:Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars
by ModernMech on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:21AM
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You’re not risking your principal but you can be risking your life. Who ever died trading on the market? My wife had a friend who died last year from COVID at 33. His last tweet was about how his dick manager at T-Mobile was forcing them to come into work despite the global pandemic. A life wasted in the name of selling cellphone plans. T-Mobile stock hit an all time high today tho.
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Re:Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars
by the_lonely_road on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:48AM
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I would hazard a guess that the downvotes are because if your going to include second order effect deaths like that then a lot of people have no doubt died from trading stocks as well. There was an article here on HN recently about one such tragedy. Some kid killed himself because he thought he owed a bunch of money from trading options or something (I think it was Robinhoods UI but don’t quote me on that) when I’m fact he didn’t owe the money.
Re:Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars
by elif on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:08PM
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It is insane to compare a single self-inflicted death based upon misunderstanding to hundreds of thousands of deaths resulting from the corporate norms.
Re:Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars
by ModernMech on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:57AM
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I think suicide is a mental health issue more than an occupational hazard. Re: the downvotes, they’ve been going up and down. +2 to -2 to +2 to -1 again. I just said something people have feelings about, that’s all.
Re:Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars
by dragonwriter on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:01PM
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> I think suicide is a mental health issue more than an occupational hazard.
The two are orthogonal rather than opposed categories.