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ITT: Discuss social norms VS financial strat

What are some epic financial strategies that normal people would consider unhealthy, embarrassing, stupid, or Jewish?

For example:
- Stay living with parents to save money.
- Stock up on non-expiring consumables when they're on sale to maximize savings in the long term (such as paper towel, soap, toothpaste, etc). Fill your house to the ceiling!
- Bottle recycling
- Sell old clothes to secondhand clothing stores
- Sell literally anything that might have SOME value that you would otherwise throw in the garbage.
- Filter and reuse your cooking oil like the chinks
- Re-purpose old toothbrushes for household cleaning.
- Sell your fingernail clippings to fetish websites?
- etc. etc. etc.

listening to these institutional investors on bloomberg, I'm gathering that the plan is to make money from shorting crypto to hell before the big funds jump in next year. It makes sense that they'll make money on the way down and create the conditions for everyone else to jump in super cheap before it skyrockets to the moon. what do you all think?

What if you try to play the markets with the objective of intentionally trying to lose your money?

I've often wondered this since statistically most people are emotional traders and most people DO get rekt. This occurs because we're trying to MAKE money, where we actually need to think like contrarians and do the opposite of what the market is doing.

Might be interesting to try and see if the opposite effect occurs and you don't end up making money. But again, the only way this theory would work is if you are attempting to lose the money. You'd need to think of the market like a video game where the only way to WIN is to make your balance go to zero.