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by Cookingboy 1965 days ago
> With regards to treating investing like gambling, there's no real problem with that. There's definitely a market for it, and it's why /r/Wallstreetbets exists.

There are also markets (pretty large ones too) for cocaine and hookers and human trafficking.

There is a difference between treating investment like gambling and teaching and encouraging new investors how to take unnecessary risks.

In fact, if not for the blatant hypocrisy of them doing this under this mission statement “democratizing finance”, I may be ok with how predatory they are.