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Re:We need to rethink employee compensation by MCRed on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:07PM (#9774483)
Investing in the stock market is not a game of chance. You may lack the skill or discipline to engage in that activity, and that's fine, don't do it, put your time elsewhere, such as the real estate method I described.

Calling it gambling, however, is dishonest, and is popular among those who want to use that characterization to serve the purpose of denying people the opportunity to invest. For instance, despite working in startups for 20 years, regulations prevent me from being an angel investor (though it seems its common in california to simply ignore those regulations) ... because people like you think that I shouldn't be allowed to decide where to invest my money. Yet I could go to Las Vegas and blow $100k in a weekend.

So, no, it's not gambling. It's investing. And shame on you for saying otherwise.

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Re:We need to rethink employee compensation by ryandrake on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:21PM (#9774581)
"People like me"? I think you're reading way into my comment. I don't care what you do with your money, it's yours.

Gambling is defined as "an enterprise undertaken or attempted with a risk of loss and a chance of profit or success." That's exactly what people do when they buy a stock or invest in a start-up. They just go to sites like E-trade and Schwab to do it rather than PokerStars. Unless you know of some risk-free stock where chance is not a factor (I'm all ears).

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