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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by vore on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:00PM (#34513432)
Yeah, but this is literally a rich-get-richer kind of thing. Labor doesn't have that privilege.
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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by WalterBright on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:27PM (#34514028)
> Labor doesn't have that privilege

robinhood.com says you're incorrect.

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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by nerdponx on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:16PM (#34514342)
How many Robinhood users have made more than pocket change without losing it all in a subsequent gamble? And of those who did, how many are not already at an upper income bracket?
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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by WalterBright on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:58PM (#34514587)
Obviously you realize that investing in stocks is risky. Risk is the flip side of making investment gains. Anyone who invests in stocks takes a risk that it tanks.

No risk => no gains

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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by nerdponx on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:37AM (#34514809)
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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by jujube3 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:22AM (#34515401)
Investing in Google is not zero-risk.
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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by WalterBright on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:49PM (#34522467)
Many poor people trading cryptocurrencies made a pile of money. The newspaper was filled with their stories for a couple years.

Of course, many lost money, too. No risk => no gain

The point is, they could invest in the markets, despite being poor.

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Re:Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and po... by komali2 on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:27AM (#34577983)
Off of whom did they make that money?
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