it used to be that the latter was necessary to be good at running a business the former is too "nerdy" and fails at business UNLESS the messy details of reality can be abstracted away and simplified. like say with... giant piles of VC cashhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU5JsP6pUpc&ab_channel=JakeTran …
the "friction" in the system is how rapidly the money moves as the price gets higher. as the price increases the "volume" of money also grows. it can't grow infinitely so it must eventually stop just like when the body burns out its fat reserves
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this explains the intuition behind selling when the taxi driver starts talking to you about a stock it means that the mental space has been fully saturated. everyone who CAN jump into the market already has.
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two things can continue the bubble. one is debt. the other is a lower price point like a stock split. this allows the mass of poors to enter and also increases options activity since the contract sizes are smaller
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imo the previous bull run is probably due to an expectation of institutional investors jumping in and continuing the run by mobilizing traditional assets and converting them into crypto (they r not stupid and they did not do that)
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the current bull run has larger price action and is likely because the cultural knowledge has been building and more conservative investors are now mobilizing their assets
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it's also possible that institutional investors are now more motivated to get in the legal work has been going on in the backgrounds, the exchanges have been growing in sophistication the finance world is now ready to fuck over the stupids now that there's REAL money to be made
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so this kinda loops back into the education thing:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1389466444618866690 …
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is it "good" to allow your country's people to fuck each other into being smarter? or should you be somewhat paternalistic and slap away the trading and yell "stupid kid, you don't even know algebra, wtf are you doing, go do these math problems!!!"
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the paternalistic view is always aware of the trap of drugs/prostitution. parasitic exploitative relationships that DO NOT "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" (which is why they tend to be overly strict w/ these laws instead of liberal)
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while pure freedom DOES generate smarter individuals at the extremes, it does so at the cost of a much lower average and even more damage at the opposite extreme the finance world has created many masters of complexity but has also left a lot of losers dying in the gutter
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