Re:After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x...
by Behemoth66 on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:59AM
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Did it never occur to you how the vast majority of people acquire initial capital is via labor?
Re:After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x...
by kelseyfrog on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:05AM
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The vast majority of lottery winners buy lottery tickets.
Re:After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x...
by dozerly on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:03AM
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This is the logical end conclusion, but in reality, we live in a middle ground where plenty of people have and will live in a society where they can sell their labor for a perfectly content life.
Re:After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x...
by thrance on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:33PM
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This is becoming less and less true by the day. Salaries are dwindling while the stock market is roaring, and it's already the case that speculation brings more income in this country than work.
It's not sustainable, capitalist societies always degenerate into a society of owners who get the majority of the wealth while workers get scraps. This is what's to blame for the social unrest the West is experimenting.
Re:After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x...
by wasfgwp on Thursday August 06, 2026 @01:50AM
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A healthy and successful society can’t exist in combination with a winner takes all (or strongly leaning towards it) economic system.
While the pie is growing due to increasing productivity for the most part it’s still zero sum.
Laboring in a capitalist economy is a loser's strategy because your capital is you body's ability to produce value and that has a maximum physical limit. Why participate in an economy using a strategy that has a natural upper bound? It makes no sense. You're not even playing the game poorly - you're not playing the game at all.