Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[LP]

The sharemarket is gambling and highly capitalist which would have made my leftist uni self disown  or even shoot me. lol

You don't have to be left, you just have to be honest and observant to understand the impact of investments. I've had so many opportunities to build a fortune that have been scuppered by social morality that I dread reviewing the history. If you are happy to be a bastard you can make crap loads, but it always comes at somebody or somethings expense. My biggest "miss" was refusing to buy shares at $0.01 each when Rupert wanted to make a takeover of the company I worked for. They basically gifted shares to the employees of the company and asked them not to sell, thinking the price would be too high for Rupert to buy enough of them, but it wasn't and he bought them at $16.50 to gain control. I've several former work-mates who became multimillionaires overnight from that one deal. The price was, thousands of unskilled workers ended up redundant losing their jobs, replaced by automation.