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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat SuperGrok Premium Lists Bookmarks Communities Profile More Post Eli @eliqiann Article See new posts Conversation sysls @systematicls Subscribe Ask Grok to explain this post The Prison Of Financial Mediocrity 401 2.1K 9.1K 4.2M Introduction I am not a stock picker. I worship at the altar of a large breadth of low confidence (<= 53% win-rate) bets, but I am absolutely betting the house that long degeneracy is the prevalent socioeconomic theme of the coming century. It is why people above the age of 40 will recommend you to get better at your job and increase your salary, whilst everyone else seem to be ignoring exactly THAT and desperately clawing at something, ANYTHING that can give them a shot of outrageous success. The easiest thing to sell to a crowd like this is "hope", and when you understand this, you will understand the rise of the casinos (in all forms, dexes, prediction marke
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