Only my personal experience but at certain times I was in need to follow people in the light, whether shady or not, my brain was in a fog. Add the crypto get rich quick factor and people will just spend all their neurons into trying to guess where they will make the more money.
Spending two years in crypto made me realize I too was capable of being gullible. Education evaporates in these situations (I was jobless and in a hurry to escape from the pit, I'm not anymore which probably helped) you regress to very primitive social reflexes. Crypto was probably an amplified context but trading (and other similar money related activities) are similar.
Crypto is a terrible environment. I know a couple of people that scored really big at the obvious expense of others, and one guy that is now circling the drain after being super high for a while. It's great to see you managed to escape the lure.
I took some material losses so it probably affected my reflection, but in any case it was a super deep lesson on human nature, and how, even in the 2020s we still operate on fuzzy animal logic (following, gurus, ..).
What causes his turmoil ? The newfound material wealth was too rapid and he lost a notion of normality? Or is it having luck while others lost being a burden on his mind ?
(trading highly speculative stuff like crypto really made me feel empty due, you're never selling something useful for the other, you just benefit from their lack of luck. Very strange superposition of emotions)
