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The Squid Game of Greed and Fear - My Personal Experience

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Hey there, thanks for sliding onto my blog. I don't post often, because I now use this place to put down some thoughts that refuse to leave my mind. It used to be because I wanted to generate some Google AdSense income from people like you coming to read. So, my target was always about retaining readers so they keep coming back to my blog; not anymore, unfortunately. Now let's get to the point.  I recently watched the Squid Game show/movie. Every time I observed participants talk about games and money, my mind would wander between fear and greed. I have talked about fear and greed in a previous post on inequality . When some participants voted to end the games, I knew it was fear driving their decision, and those who voted to continue were being driven by greed. Being someone who trades/invests in markets, I could appreciate another aspect of this show that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. I have had positions go up by thousands of dollars and still lost because I held on...