[pjc50]

> With regards to treating investing like gambling, there's no real problem with that. There's definitely a market for it

There's a big problem with that, because marketing gambling to Americans is often illegal. Do people remember the poker boom and Pokerstars getting destroyed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg

Like drugs, criminalisation outright creates problems. Like tobacco, allowing people to market addictions with serious adverse effects can't be allowed to continue indefinitely. This stuff should end up like tobacco in some countries: legal to sell, but not to market it, you have to ask for it.