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Chariots487 t1_j7stezh wrote

He's the only financial youtuber who doesn't start every video by droning "not financial advice, not a financial adviser"(arya realty, arya serious) and then proceeding to tell you how you should invest your money. The most he's ever done is show you what you shouldn't invest in, by way of demonstrating that it's a scam.

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Ninjewdi t1_j7sqkw9 wrote

That's a pretty broad statement and very clearly isn't true. Not "everyone" knows the risks. People gamble, invest, and spend money on things all the time without bothering to learn the risks. There are still people who thinking vaping nicotine is less addictive than smoking cigarettes, still people losing their life savings in Vegas.

And you might make the claim that they're idiots who are the exception, not the rule, but I'm not sure the stats agree. Either way, there are plenty of folks who would gladly take huge risks without truly understanding the stakes, and if even one of them has seen this dude's vids and rethought their next move, then he's done someone a serious service.

Another YouTuber, Ann Reardon, started with just cooking vids, then started debunking fake viral cooking hacks, then branched out into debunking or challenging other trends. She covered electric wood burning (I feel like there's a name for it but it escapes me right now) and how and why certain how-to videos were immensely dangerous. People died replicating them, and many other people chose not to because she shed light on that.

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ClubChaos t1_j7skix3 wrote

The great irony with btc is it's evangelists will scream from the mountain about it's decentralized nature. The reality is by virtue of it's limited supply and economic model, it's distribution results in an even worse reality than we have now with economic disparity. It's fucking hilarious. I mean, it's not really funny, because if BTC succeeds it's going to destroy the world economy (and it's already leaving scars). More of haha this is actually terribly representative of the greed in this world.

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dwhee t1_j7ry54v wrote

Your insinuation is that anything hooked-nose and money-grubbing is automatically targeted at Jews. That is Anti-Semitic as fuck. One second you’re complaining that people won’t “let stereotypes die” and in the next you’re complaining about people “denying the existence of stereotypes.” If anything, you are perpetuating them.

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