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Mon | January 29, 2007

The Stock Market

That guy from writing class, I guess his name is Bill, said something like "it's a cliche but I make money off stocks." Actually he had one of the characters in his story say it. Hearing about that depresses me. It depresses me to hear about people living off the stock market. Because my Dad, who does not appear depressed, must be. You can't lose x large amount of dollars, cashed in from your inheritance of Taiwanese land, and not be a little downtrodden. The whole thing seems like a scam to me, y number of people like my father funding the lives z number of people like Bill. The stock market takes advantage of people who believe in the miracle of free money, this American dream of riches. Millions of Asians immigrated here trusting this promise of wealth and instead there's an incredible lifelong struggle even to subsist at the bottom of an organizational structure. My Dad says he needs something to hope for, and I suppose that's a valid point. But the stock market seems bound to be against him, and therefore not a good thing to store your hope in. Don't store it in me, neither. I don't know where is a safe place to put it.

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