how people go broke: a few weeks ago, I talked to someone who made mid-seven figures during the recent memecoin bull he didn’t get lucky on one coin he was early, sharp, caught every major trend walked away with more than most people will ever see in their lives but now, he's almost broke because he couldn’t scale his life back down when the money came in, his whole world shifted he moved to a better apartment, flew business class, made new friends who were used to that level of spending $80k months became “normal" then the market slowed and the trades stopped working, at least not at the same scale but he kept spending not because he was stupid, because downgrading felt impossible how do you explain to new friends that you can’t split the villa this year? that you’re back to flying economy? that the new version of you... was temporary? your ego won’t let you money from a bull market is like a windfall of luck if you mistake it for skill, you build a life that only luck can sustain when the luck runs out, so does everything that depended on it this story isn't rare, it’s just rarely told and it’s happening more than anyone wants to admit