alt Hacker News> The stock market is exactly the same - middle class gambling.
Our entire society is based on being forced to gamble. If you don't invest your money in some capacity then inflation will eat you alive.
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hgomersall • today at 12:16 PM
Why should having money ever give you a return on that? I ask that question in the context of moral philosophy, not a capitalist society. Surely there are better ways to determine how an individual should live that doesn't typically amount to emerging from a lucky orifice?
@hgomersall: emerging from a lucky orifice is in fact the main thing in life if you think about it. After all, we are collectively a computer made of monkeys, and the function it is computing is natural selection. Kin selection is one aspect of it. Everything else - including money and innovation - is window dressing.