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20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After $730k Negative Balance
- im3w1l 6y agoPreviously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523379
- ianai 6y agoI think we’re changing to calling it “dies by suicide” to acknowledge the mental health aspect of suicide. “Commits suicidal” makes it sound more like a crime that needs to be policed instead of disorder to be treated.
- adfdfgghhe2020 6y agoConfetti popping everywhere,” says Brewster referring to the shower of colorful confetti Robinhood routinely deploys after customers make trades. “They try to gamify trading and couch it as investment.” They are borrowing the freemium game strategies used to develop player addiction and normalise the spending habit.