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I can feel pity for someone who suffered a significant financial loss. But I can't imagine being a degenerate gambler and pissing away my life savings with an instrument that makes no sense.


I feel that way about your average day traders, leveraged buyers and short sellers, but these were largely people who thought they were getting 20%. Not quite degenerate gambler metrics.


I don't know any degenerate gamblers that expect 20% returns


Fair enough.




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