Gambling is better than trading. Gambling is a thrill and probability is less. Trading is a win and doesn't involve much thrill. Some people compare gambling with leveraged trading. Leverage is easy and gaming the mind. An academician will always be better in trading than the rest of the players.

Has anyone else noticed a strong correlation, between the tendency to want to jump on things like "futures" and derivatives and shitcoins swapping and pump and dump stuff, and just morally bankrupt people looking for a shortcut to everything in life with no risk?

Like, you risk your future to put  a ton of money into bitcoin and you go up and down and in the end you did right... or you sacrifice your spending money and do what you can at a lesser level but, just go forward step by step.

OR

You wanna jump on something going to the moon and bail out before it take everyone, you wanna maximize money returns in fiat FOR THE SAKE OF CONVERTING BACK TO FIAT. You wanna make a gain at the expense of someone else loss and do it with minimal input so minimal personal exposure risk.

Its like a "type" of person tends to lean to one path and another type leans the other way, and its fairly (but not universally) consistent. Altcoins are going to poison the strategic reserve causing public outcry against crypto in general due to shitcoin manipulation and losses which will in turn damage BTC’s reputation probably collapsing the entire reserve plan in the short term hurting BTC gains and starting the bear market. General market sentiments in terms of how comfortable people feel with investing their money will exist for an indefinite period of time, and that behaviour can certainly lead to bubbles. I just think there are diminishing losses and diminishing gains as the masses become more aware of Bitcoin and as the price rises. I think people saying to "buy before a major event and sell 18 months later" will be wrong eventually, although I know many people that said the same thing I'm saying now 4 years ago.