Re:TerraUSD crash led to vanished savings, shattered dreams
by WJW on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:29AM
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I agree that the actual "setting up traps" is work, but so is choosing investments (even if that is usually shunted off to an index fund these days).
My gist was more that in both investing and trapping there is a point where the positions are set up and there just isn't anything that you can do to make the process go faster. Not being able to make it go faster by putting in additional work seems to be psychologically difficult to cope with for many people.
Re:TerraUSD crash led to vanished savings, shattered dreams
by phs318u on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:30AM
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> make it go faster by putting in additional work
I feel this is slightly wrong. I’ve observed the kinds of people most likely to lose their money in this way don’t want to put in additional “work”. They want (hope for) additional “woo”.
You do your rounds (a lot of walking), pull out dead animals and carry them with you, re-bait your traps, repair traps as required, dump the dead animals, and repeat over and over again.
I guess there are other forms of trapping - more like hunting, a one off exercise to get that <whatever> - but I would hazard most professional trappers would see it as very much like work.