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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Counterpoint: no, they wouldn't.

OP gambled with 12k initially, which isn't much enough to do anything. In their eyes, they only lost 12k.

If you *start* with 138k, you would realize what a gift it was and buy a house or stick it in VTI and realize you'd have 1mil in 30 years.
gpt
Case in point:  
My wife just received a rather large check for something that happened to her.  


She immediately paid off her bills (which took about 40% of the check).  Then put half in a high yield savings account.  Then told me I can have a grand to put "into the online casino".

She's not gambling it away like a degenerate.