Society repeatedly tells you:

Not trading stocks = stability
Not speculating = rationality
Not messing around = safety
So you confidently stand aside,
Thinking you've stepped away from the gambling table.
But in reality,
The gambling table is never a place you can truly leave.
You hold cash,
Which is labeled as "conservative."
But in financial language, this is called:
Heavy short positions on long-term growth.
You're betting on:
Technological stagnation, population decline, and deflation arriving.
Otherwise, why would your purchasing power shrink year after year?
It's not that you haven't bet,
It's that you've taken an extremely one-sided, unhedged short position.
You buy property,
Which is praised as "necessity" and "settling down."
Translated into asset allocation:
High leverage, all-in city stocks in a single region.
Locked in for thirty years.
Zero liquidity.
And you must pray that population, fiscal policy, industry, and politics all stay stable.
But the narrative tells you:
This is "being practical."
You take exams to become civil servants,
Which is called "stability."
But what you're actually doing is:
Long-term bullish on national credit and systemic continuity.
All your human capital
Is bound into a super long-term, non-transferable bond.
You're not just facing volatility,
But systemic risks that are delayed in manifesting.
You specialize in a single skill,
And society praises you for being "focused" and "reliable."
But on the investment ledger, it reads:
Heavy concentration in a single industry, betting that technological paths won't change abruptly.
AI, automation, paradigm shifts,
All are downplayed by narratives as "there's still time."
Pay attention:
The truly clever part is:
All these bets
Are collectively renamed—
"Not speculative."
There's only one place
Where risks are allowed to fluctuate in real-time, settle instantly, and be openly displayed.
And that place is considered:
Dangerous, irrational, and not to be touched.
K-line charts become scapegoats.
And those larger positions:
Twenty-year mortgage curves,
A lifetime of cash flow from careers,
Cemented human capital,
Are taken as "certainty" simply because there are no market charts.
The brilliance of this narrative isn't in deceiving,
But in making you believe you’re not actually betting at all.
When everyone else is passively holding positions, the only one criticized
Is the person who knows they’re gambling.
All phenomena are empty illusions; all conditioned phenomena should be viewed as such.