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Actually I'll just continue from the notes since I hate trying to phrase sentences based on character limits.
I'll be blunt and say if you are an active investor researching companies personally and being an active investor I'd be very surprised. You don't strike me as that guy. For 1 that guy knows computers have almost beat him to death on trading based on time and simply data analyzation (think of JP morgan analyzing every chase purchase and buying stock on ups and downs, without even thinking of the HFT stuff) Would need a spectacular play on something people missing or inside info. The game these days are large funds mitigating risks with great bandwidth and intel. Small fries take on all the risk over large amounts of time while the bigs take the profits in real-time and cash out with little risks or concern above their bonuses.
I am very skeptical if you have any investment philosophy. I think you probably look at your investment bottom line now and then, but have no idea what you are invested in. You just do the sunday church contributions to pad your future investment where you gain more with no real effort than you put in. Probably invest in many businesses with practices you disagree with, but are netting gain. Which also calls forth what you really believe in if collectively buying. Do they invest gun stocks, but you hate guns? I'm sure some funds adjusted to buy due to CA douche bag nuke comments.
One of the things that always strikes me as odds is people blast the idea of capitalism as growing monopolies. Not sure there has ever been any true monopoly except in gov, but a monopoly is simply a collected interest. And a collected interest might not be a bad thing if created through free trade. However we have banks who have increased their bottom line by taking advantage of poor tax policies. Advertising its smart, and lobbying for incentives for a third party business to push the agenda. And the people who are so critical of banking, wealth gaps and what not always seem to be of the upper middleclass participating in everything they hate. It's always funny to me.
But that is my general hypothesis and quick commentary on the behavior. I doubt you have capital or intel to make big invests on your own (like mining bitcoin outside a pool with a single computer). But you should question your actions if you really care about wealth inequality. Ask is this investment, and others passive collective investing, doing anything positive. If it was not incentivized would you even do it? Even realizing the life of typical 401k/IRA is still very beta dotcom stage in that it hasn't existed for a single lifespan.... Just stuff to think about as far as money and political activism goes.
- oh yea. and i think if you take away any deferment or tax adjustments you'd see so much less investment********
- slowing boom and bust and also helping the wealth inequality. especially if you maintain interest rates. huge fuck you to savers when lowered. it would reward********
- it would reward those eligible by being truely involved.... but there is geo political forces. hell jefferson preferred humble farming over growth.********
- my methods might get us wiped off the map or demoted to a african country. our bullshit helps with our status as a nation.... so who knows... artifical growth********
- works great as the music is playing. I just can't help but think the music is going to stop on us within the next 5-20 years.********
- AND on the #thermodynamics... again its about entrophy of systems. if you think of cancer in a systems a few bad cells are not an issue. its when they mono********
- OPALIZE or win majority rule and start destroying the system from within. What type of gov can be the most effectively cancerous? The one that oversees the********
- most. The idea of capitalism is in a organic system is having many free cells that only perform through NATURAL incentives and create large organs that help the********
- whole. Hell if anyone believes in darwinian systems that evolved us as a greater species, must believe in free markets as the same methodology as survival of********
- fittest. however Consumerism and our filed of ADVERTISING has changed a lot of what is seen as common sense or herd logic. Say our profession has done********
- little for progress except as help enslave people as consumer whores and helped misconstrue the ideology of what capitalism is.********
- AND still kills me people who hate capitalism and monopoly choose A SINGLE monopoly of government to run everything. asinine********
- Great trying to you againFax_Benson
- TalkingFax_Benson
- What is your point again?monospaced
- That I’m not a day trader? That’s correct. I have a full time job and a family. Why do you care? I don’t know.monospaced
- I have never in my entire life claimed that my investments align with any sense of politics or morality. You’re making that assumption.monospaced
- Seems like you just want to lecture people about how investing is somehow corrupt. Is that why you don’t do it?monospaced
- And now you’ve gone from thermodynamics to biology. Hilarious.monospaced
- I’m not a political activist. I’m not active in politics at all. Not even a little. My motives for investing are to make money it works. Like a normal person.monospaced
- as much as i figured mono. nothing more honest than admitting personal greed backed by 0 principles. thanks********
- but it is naive thinking that kind of behavior doesn't create everything you have strong opinion against. something to think about********
- You’re wrong. #thermodynamicsmonospaced
- #imright. Old dogs cant learn new tricks or facts. But thank you. your comments on actions have without a doubt helped prove my hypothesis of u********
- the fact that you are attempting to make a hypothesis about me at all is grade a asshole, and you're failing miserably at your proofmonospaced
- im an asshole because I have a hypothesis? i cant comment on failing proof considering you didn't submit any reason for failing.********
- again when making such statements you need to provide reasons for said conclusions. not just blind conclusions. shits 101 on middle school lvl********
- but does not surprise me much. you probably believe most conculsive opinion without regard to what its based on********
- ie probably measures of climate change and probably thing humans can stop climate change in its tracks if only they do enough of X Y or Z********
- because some dumb kid at a college needs to confirm future funding. while disregarding the nature of change. The simple fact we are nature********
- Our growth is change. Perhaps our cycle is part of the larger picture of nature where as we are no better than degrading biomass. Change is a constant********
- but i digress. I just think you are a bit of a simpleton buddy. and i say buddy because i don't look down on you. it is what it is. we grow together.********
- think about the nature of an ideology that bashes one for being wrong, or even different. Where is the mutual growth? hell if your thinking wins out and decimat********
- es society as all collectivist cultures has done so be it. It is what it is. And forcing ideas amongst those not wise enough to see the difference will never********
- change a thing. but you said you are a family man. be irresponsible of you not to think of the future you creating for your kid********
- all intentions aside, really look at historically the future you are creating. i find parents with real reason are a bit more objective with reason.********
- if not oh well. i doubt you are any different than the blind majority.********
- you're a jerk for trying to impose your view of ethics on me when there's no reason to and you don't know me.monospaced
- the fact you're focusing on me is beyond insane, considering there's nothing unique about my situationmonospaced
- I don't know why you have such a boner for finding a way to show that mono isn't an angel. It's creepy, and it's only something a poorly educated sap would domonospaced
- and let's face it, the REAL reason you are anti market is you're too poor, stupid or too pathetic to invest, and you're just bitter about other people's successmonospaced
- oh, and the future I'm creating for my children is a good one, full of trust funds and market richesmonospaced
- since you're a poorly educated childless sap with a chip on his shoulder, you would never understandmonospaced
- haha. imposing MY view of ethics? what are those in comparison to yours? As i see you just dont like to be judged same in the same light as you have judged.********
- And what in all my rants of support for capitalism makes you think im anti market? That alone makes me think you have little understanding of the subjects at********
- hand. Im full pro free markets. It doesn't make them fool proof. Snake oil sells. Butt if the market is full of snake oil ppl begin to think its the markets fau********
- lt rather blame themselves. in this case if the market drops 50% in large sell off who would u blame?********
- would you own your false belief in a promise that never came. similar to many ppl of faith that have fallen on hard times. beleive it was the work of some devil********
- that there is no way you got swindled because so many ppl believed the same thing? Lots you dont know until u do********
- And as far as the poor, stupid, childless all you got correct is childless. However i do have a dog which i find no different than a child********
- But the poor and stupid are absolutely relative terms. You cant know if im poor in comparison too you so thats asinine********
- Assuming all in comparison to yourself... And stupid. the fact you choose insults vs discussion or attempted rebuttal says more for me than u********
- oh yea. and i think if you take away any deferment or tax adjustments you'd see so much less investment