But...as the behavioural-finance experts have shown, buying low and selling high is profoundly "inhuman" and hard to pick up unless you're practically raised from childhood to do it. The people who master the skill (to the extent which anyone can) tend to become really cynical as a result.
Heh. Some of us found the skill relatively easy to master because we were terrifyingly cynical people in the first place.
In fact, I was too cynical to buy bitcoin back when it was
really low. I figured Satoshi was just running a scam, you know? In fact, I still think he might have been running a scam, but at this point it doesn't matter anymore. At least not to me.
The nice side is that I find it fairly easy to make money in open markets.
The not-so-nice side is that the rare artist whose work I actually like usually either commits suicide or becomes an inpatient at a mental institution with a few years of starting his or her "best" work. Either way, of course, they stop making art.
