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Yeah, it's relatively easy to make good money in crypto if you understand investing. There are a lot of things that are illegal in regulated securities markets that are not yet illegal with crypto.
I intentionally don't invest in crypto, because it doesn't produce anything. Any money you make is just taken from another investor, usually because they don't know what they're doing. When you invest in a company, you make products and sell them to customers. Something is created and rarely are people cheated.
The people investing in crypto are intentionally cheating uninformed investors in a way that is not possible in regulated securities markets.
You mean, executives with "fiduciary responsibility" take extremely irresponsible actions to "maximize shareholder profits" and gut the company that produces those products such that the product is minimally viable, borderline shit, and might even kill the end user (Boeing, Tesla, GE, etc etc). Oh and jobs and the economy are on the line too, so that's great.
All of that is way more productive than crypto because something actually gets produced. Crypto is literally only gambling and scams, plus it's bad for the Earth. And I have nothing against gambling, it's the fact that vulnerable people lose tons of money thinking it's an investment.
Plus actual gambling is way more fun.
You're not making the gambling more productive, you're making the production worse.
That's why you need to think about the company you're going to invest in.
Your critique is accurate for too many companies, yes. But by far not for all.
See, the real crypto people are not in it for the number go up. They are in it for the technology and the human freedom that it can bring. So we don't like those people either.
Isn't that the same as investing in any currency?
No one is investing in regular currencies. You’re supposed to use it to buy stuff.
No, people absolutely do invest in currency. It's quite a big thing actually.
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0412/the-basics-of-currency-trading.aspx
Forex traders are shocked.