Ezra Marcus

I don't think he was coming at it from a sense of like, I'm a robber bear.

And I think it was more just like, I'm the smartest guy in the room and my bets keep winning.

And so I'll just keep making bigger and bigger bets.

Yeah.

And I mean, to even zoom out further, it's like against the

market paradigm where everything is speculation.

Sports gambling, Kalshi, Polymarket, all this stuff is so now embedded in the worldview of young people that

It's like everyone knows somebody.

I know tons of people who I wouldn't have told you would be savvy investors, but they got into this bullshit earlier than I did.

And so they now have like millions of dollars.

And I'm just like, you know, and so I'm like, okay, well, like if I was 17 now or whatever, it just would be so much more normalized to live your life in this incredibly risk tolerant way.

It's just become very valorized and mythologized, the notion of taking insane swings and

Yeah, and I think it's against this backdrop of people feeling this kind of constriction of regular life pathways.

And it's leading people towards this almost nihilistic, but also hopeful sense of like, I'm going to be a multimillionaire and have my Lamborghini in Miami if I can just find the right niche online side hustle or gambling strategy or investment vehicle or something like that.

Another thing that I've noticed in a lot of my stories and just looking around is that

There's a more Gen X millennial attitude towards the internet that is very one-to-one sort of like, it's where I go to talk about myself.

It's like the Lena Dunham millennial, like I'm blogging about my life and that's interesting.

And people want to, it's like, this is me existing online.

And for young people, there's so much more, I think, correctly assessing that that is false, that the internet is a vehicle for finding shortcuts for money glitch and anything else you're getting played.

Yeah, that's exactly what they did.