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dictionary.reference.com...

i don't think that anyone said that 'buying stock is gambling.' we were only discussing the extent to which buying stock is a gamble

there is a danger in shifting perspective to overgeneralize and go too far in another direction - but that is a risk I think worth taking

please elaborate

even so i would disagree that buying stock is a gamble

please elaborate

because a gamble involves chance dictionary.reference.com...

the stock market is a game of luck

another defence not relying on wordplay is that in a gamble you purchase a stake in a one time game

'stock market as a game of luck' seems to undermine your argument

now if you said that the stock market was based on the values of commodities and goods exchanged on an open market...

whereas gambling is about the bounce of a ball, shuffle of cards, or the toss of dice... then I could see your argument

but still, I can wager for the steelers just like I can wager on the price of steel. what are your thoughts on currency speculation?

there is still value in near absolute devaluated currency

it is no more a gamble than steel is

the steelers is s gamble the game is constructed to reward the participant based on the outcome of the game

the construction of the game or rather the reward structure for the game is what sets a gamble apart from an investment

poor investments are not the same thing as a one time gain or loss

i like that

but in either case you are staking money on your ability to predict the future

but the absolue loss distinguishes itself from the 50% loss

you can hold on to something that has lost 1/2 its value

perhaps in hopes that the other half returns

you cannot recoup your lost 10 on the one armed bandit

staking money on your attempt to predict the future not ability

predictive abilities.

you should pay yourself first

thats what the automatic investment people say

low, does anything concern you aobut the future?

or rather cody (Coedy, Kodie, Koddy???)

do you ever worry that you will not be able to keep your position on issues?

for example being sponcered by nike and winchester to go to university because you ran out of money

do things like that concern you? or are you convinced that you will not sell yourself to do the things you want to do?

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so then you are not sympathetic to the poor? because they too can choose?