Puts his significant other in the same pile as his treasure. Cant get rich enough to be happy with those values.
‘I was a multimillionaire, I had a beautiful girlfriend, I was unhappy’: the ups and downs of a supertrader
Submitted 1 week ago by RubberDuck@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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SamboT@lemmy.world 6 days ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
“The rich have got a choice,” he says. “They can lend the money to the government or they can buy the assets. I know what I’m doing.”
“OK, what’s that?” I ask, trepidatiously, knowing the answer.
“I’m buying the assets. Stocks, gold, commodities, property, everything. The rich have got a lot of money, they can buy everything. The government has got to compete with that. They can’t. They’re trying to play chess with no pieces.”
This sound like the activity of a leftist. But it’s an interesting question, to what extent you can play the capitalist game while still claiming to be a leftist? When are you undermining from within and when have you just gone over to the other side, no matter how you conceive of yourself?
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Philanthropy. How many millionaire CEOs declared their past actions unbecoming and vowed to donate their fortunes to charity and pursue a different career path after Luigi did his deed? None. Not a single one.
If you take and take and take it doesn’t matter who it’s from. If you take so you can give then worst case you are at least putting money back into an economy. Best case is you are helping people.
zante@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Read the headline. Knew exactly who it would be
…… Not quite sure what his angle is yet, but it will reveal itself in time. It always does .
Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Humble, huh?
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No you don’t get it he’s a leftist just like my buddy who owns a bunch of apartments in the slums he bought with the money he made off his “Asian massage” parlors. He’s totally not exploiting people for wealth
byroon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If he stopped doing all that we’d still have an economy where the rich exploit the poor. The only solution is system change to make a fairer economy - which he advocates for through measures like taxing the rich. The question is has his actions undermined your trust in him to the point that he should be ignored, or do you think he really is advocating measures that would work?
Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I think what he proposes would make certain things better, but it would still be just a patch to a broken system.
Don’t think he should be ignored, but I also don’t think he is this saviour he thinks he is.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
IMO with stocks, one is only responsible when buying fron an IPO or other emissions directly from the company. otherwise the buyers money goes to another investor, not the company. at least unless onebuys enough that votes actually make a difference.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You may not pay the company when you buy shares from another trader, but you buying the shares drives the price of the shares and with that it makes the company more valuable.
the_wise_wolf@feddit.org 6 days ago
That doesn’t make any sense. That way you could only buy stocks and never sell them. Then what’s the point of investing? Also you couldn’t just leave the company behind if you stopped believing in it and its leadership.
Doom@ttrpg.network 6 days ago
Why?
Sometimes it feels “the left” has no idea of what society should be like solely what it shouldn’t be like and that’s no solution to anything.
This guy is a douchebag but using the system around you that exploits people isn’t your fault and we shouldn’t treat it that way, this guy can’t change that. Why are you blaming him?
The left fails because they’re too worried about doing no wrong than doing one thing right.
Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The left fails for many things but mainly because the media works with the elites and blame, create fake news, and dictate what the public think, want and feel.
Using the system around him and ultimately exploiting people, even if he advocates for good will, it is a choice, and something he can change. That’s what I’m blaming him for.
To me, what he wants is maintaining capitalism but just a little less biased in how wealth is shared. To me that is not real left. It does not address the many problems of capitalism.