I mostly agree with you. The market at all is a gamble but most of the people here seem to make generally informed decisions. There are certainly gamblers but I'd say the majority of them still base their investments decisions on some sort of quantitative analysis - as inconsistent as that may be at least it's something. Even the people buying TSLA on margin aren't exposing themselves to nearly the kind of risk that a penny stock has. After a casual look at WSB, there are people there often seem to be taking on risk for the sake of risk for no reason other than they find the volatility a wild ride. OP gets zero respect here for a reason...