There are so many negatives with the internet - too much information - but hopefully the positives outweigh the negs. I’d just like to thank YouTube for the countless videos that enabled me to do so many home and car repairs on my own just for starters.
Another great place with a wealth of information is Reddit. Anything from forums about building car models to guides to buy drugs on the Onion/TOR.
Where Juice is getting his info from is likely r/wallstreetbets which shows guys success and often failures as well. Probably the best story I read there was a guy (who showed proof) made around 1.4 million dumping options in a span of 5 days. The next week didn’t go so great and he lost about 600k but was smart enough to walk away and pocketed around 800k. This is not the norm. There was a national article about some poor bastard that tried this and woke up one morning to a negative balance. Can’t remember what it was but it was something like 400-700k. He quickly ended his life over it.
Another great forum there is trading Bitcoin. This guy (showed proof) that he made 180k in 6 months of trading Bitcoin. He was actually nice enough to have a long conversation with me and I realized this guy was working at this 8-10 hours a day usually 6 days a week. This was a full time job that spanned the entire day. He would log in to buy and log in to sell several times a day over the course of the entire 24 hours. This was not a side hustle.
Quick ways to get rich usually are also quick ways to lose your life savings as well. Heck I’d love to do it/try it but I guess I’m dumb or don’t have enough time to devote to something like this.
If I was a single guy living in my moms basement with no bills then I’d give it a shot, but now, I think my wife would be pretty mad if I said I lost 800k and now we are going to have to sell the house and move in with my parents.
Lol - stay safe out there - online and in-line at the grocery store.
It’s the social media effect. If something goes right, you brag about it on social media. If something goes wrong, you lie about it on social media. Gullible people read about how everyone else is succeeding and feel like losers.