This is not AI slop.
My actual brain is slop from this bubble mania.
This is a 100% human mind dump purge.
I'm not talking about the merits of long term investing,
but just the vibe of the last 5-6 years.
What does "bubble" and "mania" mean to you?
Anything below resonate with you?
What else can you add?
People freak out if the market drops 1%
or if it drops for a few days straight.
Like there is a perception that stocks are a magic money tree.
Few recall that SPY was flat for almost 15 years.
Shoeshine boy effect for years now.
Teenagers daytrading (and gambling)
Politicos trading stocks.
Stocks making more than their dayjobs.
Jobs are for suckers.
Degrees are for suckers.
Just gamble instead.
Free money hack genius.
Wealth without production is the ideal.
Stocks only go up.
despite big disparity between individual stocks down 50-98% from peak
vs. indicies near all time highs.
Market as retirement wealth machine,
but never as potential retirement destroying machine.
Markets down 50-80% in dotcom & GFC.
8% annual but ignoring 10-20 year flat periods that occur.
Buy the dip vs. falling knife mindset.
Can't lose mindset.
Never sell stocks to pay debt.
Paying off a 6% mortgage is "stupid".
Market pays more.
Can't lose.
Risk either does not exist, or is heavily discounted
Not owning stocks is reckless.
Valuations.
Vibe market.
The bigger the red, the more the green (Calls, it is)
IPO cashouts with 80%+ crash bagholders.
Wild claims by CEOs.
Space data, planet colony, flying robo cars, etc
Circular financing.
Enron vibes.
Leverage.
3x, 5x, 10x ETFs, even for single stocks.
Inverse ETFs.
0DTE options casino market.
People going from $50k to $3mm in a single year. (yea, survivorship bias)
Rotating bubble sectors. EV, Space, nuclear, weed, robot, rare earth, quantum, chips, AI, psych, etc
Alternative bubbles? Sports betting, sports collectibles, Pokemon, etc.
What does "bubble" and "mania" mean to you?
Anything above resonate with you?
What else can you add?