I hope we can create an anonymous world where they are not provable crimes.

Humans are always competing in any way they can. This is nature. Nature is not a crime. It just is.

No one forced you to invest. It is your job to discern fact from hype. Collective markets drive all this trolling because we think our gains are determined by cheerleading. I think most gains are determined by fundamentals. As Benjamen Graham said, " in the short term, the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine".

I am suffering from some stupid decisions in life that put me in situations of higher risk and thus now am blind in one eye, have an (supposedly incurable) infection which usually results in head and throat cancer and autoimmunity (peripheral neuropathy). I have symptoms indicating this is underway. So nature has been tough of me (but I fell lucky compared to Hal Finney), but I accept nature. I prefer my freedom (to destroy myself), than a guarantee hell of collective insurance.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

    Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
    US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

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Note I wrote my solution for question #22.