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   >>>>> there is that you can have. A Russian roulette.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> But trading of stocks and crypto by yourself is like crossing the   
   >>>>> street the way people who manage it all their lives do. Yes, some   
   >>>>> morons get killed by crossing the street but that doesn't mean you   
   >>>>> cannot cross the street safely all by yourself.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And of course for this analogy, there's many ways to cross a street   
   >>>> other than under the supervision of a crossing guard, which in   
   >>>> analogy form would relate to varying levels of care vs   
   >>>> carelessness...both of the individuals and of the crossing guard   
   >>>> (because using a guard is no guarantee of never getting hit & killed   
   >>>> by a car).   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Can I conclude, then, that you're chicken? :)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Nah, just better informed & less reckless than I was in the past.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> -hh   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> But still a chicken. If you are better informed now then you'd be   
   >>> trading, but more carefully.   
   >>   
   >> Or that from Maslow's hierarchy of needs, I'm where you claim I'm at:   
   >> higher up on the hierarchy such that those needs are being met.   
   >>   
   >> A sports analogy is a team with a big lead. They have the freedom to   
   >> take fewer injury risks, run out the clock, & still comfortably win.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> But you packed and left the whole thing to others to manage.   
   >>   
   >> Whereas the real answer is 100% self-managed since 2018.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> You don't trust yourself. I do :)   
   >>   
   >> Partly correct, because I know that my cognitive decline is inevitable   
   >> with age, so my plans factor this in: a drive towards simplification &   
   >> having it be robustly resistant to errors/mistakes or shortfalls.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> -hh   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > You're probably younger than me.   
      
   Haven't bothered to keep track of things below my attention threshold.   
      
   If you're saying that to try to make a point, you need to say just what   
   age you are, to to provide self-contained context.   
      
   > You shouldn't worry about these matters for another 30 years.   
   > 30 years is a life time. I don't buy my grave lot in my 20s.   
      
   No, simply being able to accept one's mortality isn't a requirement to   
   also immediately act on those things today:  its just having a grip on   
   what the needs are and likely timeline.  That means being deliberative   
   before deciding if to increase complexity even today.   
      
   > See, you made me repeat again.   
      
   Not at all.   
      
   > And when I do that; i.e., repeat myself, I stop that conversation cause   
   > it tells me the addressee is impervious to sense itself :)   
      
   You want to disengage, but do so while trying to save face.  Good luck.   
      
      
   -hh   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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