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Phillipharryt | 5 years ago

You do have to laugh a bit when someone starts their article on addiction by claiming their own addictions have been a net positive on their life, self awareness? What's that?

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apta|5 years ago

Normalizing deviant behavior, and pandering to the hipster crowd, that he's not one of those "backward" people who refuse to engage in such vices.

bustin|5 years ago

I think he pointed that out to show he’s not part of the anti-vice crowd, the kind of people determined to lower exposure to all kinds of stimulating things.

Stimulation and vice is good, but I think he made his point that phones have enabled people to access stimulation through stock trading with a sort of reckless abandonment that should be worth asking “is this too much?”

EDIT: I personally moved my portfolio from Robinhood a year ago over to TDAmeritrade in order to “slow down” my interactions with my portfolio. Robinhood made it too easy and “fun” for me personally. YMMV of course, but I find myself agreeing with his point