I can see it in myself these days when I was forced to think of how to make money, that I try to maximize my own gain, and then try to justify that I am doing a good trade and I am not a bad human at all haha. Like if I were to make websites and host them, then I see how much it costs to rent a server and add on top of that as much as possible to charge a "customer" for it :)). That's how it works.
If I were to make websites for friends, trade-free, my goal will be to minimize the costs, and make it better and more reliable, but if I do it as a trade-based service, my goal is to maximize my trade advantages. And people who believe this is not evil or that bad, or that they are still good humans because they find a balance there, they are self delusional.
Even if I march for this trade-free approach and hate this bullshit trade-based society, I will get corrupted the moment I engage in trades. But I am forced to do it. And I will make some money somehow. I need to support TROM and myself. Because one without the other, can not exist probably.
I will try to not even talk about my trade-based journey here or anywhere if I can. Let's see. I feel ashamed for even thinking of doing this, of charging other humans in return for something else. It is disgusting. But I have no choice, so at least I justify it as such. Maybe after TROM II is released more people can help me financially to continue this TROM journey.
Until then, keep calm and make some money. #tromlive
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in reply to Tio • •You're very honest and down to earth when you speak, I like that. The sad truth is that most people don't even realize why trading is such a harmful behavior, so they never feel guilty of doing it. Someone reading this post might think you're gonna do some really corrupt thing to make money, lol, without realizing that you spend almost your entire life trying to help people understand why trading itself is corrupt. The things you describe here as "corrupt" is unfortunately the normal way of life for a lot of people, and I can't blame them when most of them are forced to do it just like you.
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