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The women you may know may still gamble but escape notice because they're doing it differently. Lots of my women friends do various scratch and win tickets and
by Tiktaalik 3y ago
The women you may know may still gamble but escape notice because they're doing it differently.
Lots of my women friends do various scratch and win tickets and joke around that winning is the only way they're going to be able to retire.
At the core of it both groups clearly feel that the economy is so broken that it's no longer to achieve the outcomes they want through normal means and only some short cut of luck will get them there.
- ravenstine 3y agoThese people aren't entirely wrong, but at the same time a scant number of them (in my personal experience) bother doing something boring like investing their money in a taxable account or IRA. In a peak act of irony, they dismiss the stock market as "gambling." They'll give bits of money away in a piecemeal attempt at random chance but dismiss participating in a market that has a far, far greater level of predictability than lottery tickets. It doesn't matter that the barrier to entry has been lowered to near-zero. It doesn't matter that a person can invest in a single ETF so they can set it and forget it. They won't do it. So while the economic situation has become more challenging for a lot of people, if all people are doing is trusting their 401k and otherwise throwing their money at random chance, then I really don't want to hear them complain.
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