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Retail investors are always the losers.
by mnky9800n 3y ago
Retail investors are always the losers.
- excalibur 3y ago> Retail investors are always the losers. Among the losers anyway. Pretty hard to pick a bigger loser in this equation than the humble Uber driver or Amazon warehouse worker.
- dns_snek 3y agoElaborate, how are employees bigger losers than retail investors? The former would have to find new jobs, the latter could be screwed out of their life savings.
- DrScientist 3y agoI don't know the truth of working conditions and salaries - but let me give you some scenarios. You lose your job at Amazon competitor and start to work for Amazon. - You are paid less ( let's say 2.5% ) - that massively compounds over a lifetime and/or -your quality of life at work is much less - and that's about half your waking hours for most of the week - so I'd call that a big deal.
- monocasa 3y agoRetail investors more or less know they're gambling. Employees are just expecting an honest wage for an honest day's work.
- excalibur 3y agoOkay, I'll go burn some money on bad investments. You shit in a diaper 10 hours a day (because if you go to the bathroom too many times you get fired) for the privilege of sliding further and further into debt in an attempt to live on $15/hr. We'll see who the bigger loser is.
- version_five 3y agoMy rough analysis is there is a hierarchy: - public markets - VC - PE - Family Office The smartest money is people you've never heard of buying high quality assets. VC and PE are basically running their own versions of fixing up companies and dumping them on the public, and public markets are where all the dumbest money is.