/biz/ - Business & Finance

>it's like watching two monkeys discovering a banana for the first time

indeed priceless

>>52933968
It's weird to think a lot of /smg/ anons who were around for Bayhorse probably lost their pants with the downturn and are no longer with us
Bayhorse
Mutant fish
Garbage Don
Lum poster
Utz poster
Like tears in the red rain

>>52745015
It's the arrogance of the intellect- "Well no that wasn't real communism, because they <some bullshit excuse> instead of <absurd idealistic policy that only works in theory>. If the smart people were in charge <like me>, that wouldn't happen this time."
Repeat onward and forever.

>>52546419
The short of it is the social contract has been broken and most people (particularly men) have little to gain from working hard.
It's easier to find motivation when you have a family to provide for, know your work is benefiting the local community, and that it's all for something.
Women being encouraged to enter the work force and put off families (if not actively scorn them) devalues labor and takes away the prime motivator to improve your standard of living over bare comfort. Additionally, due to women raising themselves up in socioeconomic status and "yaaasss girlboss, need man like fish need bicycle" culture, trying to even find anyone to start a family with like pulling teeth.
Your effort goes to benefiting people you will never meet, while often destroying the local community due to the destruction of small business. If you're like most people, you're being bled by interest rates on loans you were told you need to get ahead.
>tl;dr: Society doesn't give people a reason to make working worth it

>>50765840
Splendid anon that sounds like a comfy collection

>>49612413
Certs and practical skills are your friend, find a technical domain that seems interesting and look into how to land a job in it while spending as little as possible
Speculative trading is not a substitute for consistent cash flow. Live within your means and try to make friends with people in your community

9K in DXG
9k in LTO
9k in AVAX
15k in ETH for degenerate gambling

>>27971853
BTC -> ETH -> IPO pump + dumps -> Chainlink -> ???
Maybe the next golden call is the precious metal faggots foretelling the end of FIAT. No one knows. It's definitely not the 50 shitcoins been shilled here by discord and telegram groups.

I lost a whole bitcoin on poloniex with margin in the bitcoin run up to 3k. Watching that shit run up to 20k in 2017 and now 40k today still hurts.

>t. shorted XRP on a pump and got liquidated.
>it dumped like 50% a few days later.

Really I only lost $2k, its been an incredibly valuable lesson, since then I've just purchased bitcoin and eth. never use margin.

>>21307240
>be me
>have IT degree
>read about RLC and LINK in 2017
>decided that these two were the ones and bought huge bags
>tfw I was right all along

I've went to hell and back
I saw the rise and fall of 2017
I saw the despair and struggle of 2018
The dream of recovery in 2019
Throughout one constant remained. Board monitored BTC. Board reacted with green/pink wojaks.

When was the last time you saw wojaks being posted? There's no more pink left. No more green to be hyped. Only alts making moves and all of us chasing after them.

BTC is about to make a move that is going to leave many in tears. It's going to pump out of nowhere past the ATH. Clean and quick.