Short answer, yes. If you don't learn how to exploit the laws and systems provided to you (Created for YOUR benefit), you will end up poor. And frustrated. And controlled. And immorally exploited. And wasting you time spinning your wheels to achieve a similar result that someone else achieved with only a fraction of the time, energy, and resources you used.

That being said, that doesn't mean you always "need" to exploit something just because it exists. I made this point last week when I said that video conferencing servers no purpose beyond what a simple phone call can already achieve, except in the instance that you are giving a presentation. However, that does not excuse being ignorant of it. Getting back to the discussion of the stock market, do you know of another system or method that can be used to achieve a similar result to what the stock market can provide for you with? If the answer is "Yes", then pursue that venture if you prefer it, and there's nothing else that really needs to be discussed. If the answer is "No", then why are you avoiding the subject and refusing to educate yourself about it?


How is the desire to have money equivalent to being "greedy"? If it's just the desire to have money for no other reason than the sake of having money, I can agree with you there as that's the purest definition of greed. If you're desiring money for the sake of doing something with it, there's nothing greedy about it. It's something as simple as seeing the options that exist out there, but realizing that those options require money, so you find a way to make that money so that you can then have access to those options. It can range anywhere from materialist desires of wanting to build a model train set or play golf to realist desires of paying for regular maintenance on your car or seeking out the best medical attention when a crisis occurs. Some people have even taken it as far as pursing those wealth-producing outlets so that their spouse can quit their job, and/or spend more time with their kids and get them out of the nightmare that is public schooling.

At the end of the day, what's wrong with finding ways to make money so that you can increase your options?


Have you heard of slavery? Not the wussy European/American kind where they actually treated their slaves humanely and allowed them the possibility to buy their freedom. I mean the African, Meso-American, and Asian kind where entire empires where built on the backs of POWs, and then having said POWs being sacrificed for their cults.

Also, what about government regulations and taxes, that are not designed for the public welfare, nor were created for the purposes of preventing exploitation?


No, it does not. Easy example of this is how, before the American Civil War broke out, slavery (Sanitized as American slavery was) was actually proving to be fairly unprofitable. Reason why is because the cotton gin improved production so quickly, that plantations started achieving the same results with less people, and started losing money because it cost more to house, feed, and care for the slaves than if they had employees working under them. Similar advancements also lead to the reason why the North was much more developed than the South during that time.


How can it make people "greedier" unless they were already that greedy in the first place? People don't just "change" because now they have several million in their bank account. They were already like that and having "Fuck you" amounts of money reduced their number of reasons for continuing their farce.


Until an emergency happens. Or, they want to support a struggling business. Or, they want to be a philanthropist.


What's wrong with healthy competition in the marketplace? That's how America's economy was designed over 200 years ago, and every developed nation has fully embraced some flavor of it.


Then why don't you, or the people being hurt, file a lawsuit against the companies and entities that do this? Or create a union? Or start up your own business to compete with theirs, while offering employees the rights and money they deserve?


And, those people will experience the eventuality that profits rise and fall. It doesn't continually grow exponentially.