I sit down with John Gillen — Partner at True Capital and host of Milk Road Macro — to break down how modern investing is shifting from long-term wealth building to dopamine-driven risk-taking.
They talk about the rise of leverage, why gambling behavior is exploding among retail traders, how automation has rewired discipline, and why the opposite of addiction isn’t willpower — it’s community. We also debate one of the biggest questions of our time: Should the government have access to your data — and where is the line between safety and surveillance?
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 — Welcome John Back To The Show
1:00 — $15B of shorts liquidated
3:12 — The changing culture around investing
13:00 — Everything you need to know about leverage
17:00 — The failure of the American educational system
19:00 — The gambling addiction in stocks
24:00 — Why do men gamble and most women don’t?
28:00 — Why it’s better if your customer needs your product
33:00 — We’ve automated our life into oblivion
38:00 — The opposite of addiction is community
44:00 — Debate on government privacy
55:00 — Thanks John For Joining!
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