In other words, the American Dream has become the opportunity to spend money you don't have, to buy shit you don't need, to impress people you don't like.... won't be able too live the dream , will be too busy covering the margin call
while we have the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleading squad in wet t-shirts jumping up and down vigorously on a trampoline trying to distract us....
Well, if you start with $10,000,000, it would only take some traders about 6 months to get it down to $500,000
the first questions should be: How long does it take to go to $0. I don't mean to say this in a discouraging way. The road to riches is paved with hard work. There is no easy money on easy street. Behind every success story are stories of blood and sweat, trial and tribulations, failures and retries. Study your way. If you learn from other's mistakes, you will minimize yours.
It took the receptionist at You Tube a year or so to make $1.4 million on her new GOOG stock options. My advice is learn how to answer a telephone and go work at the next You Tube-like firm. You will make $1 million in no time.