Atleast buying and selling stock because you think it will go up or go down is gambling. Basically you are betting that you will outperform the market rate.
If you just want to get the market rate of return by passive investing, it is not gambling. This post is talking about trading.
and not just that, it is literally an information game.
You hear that the company's latest car model failed after seeing the quarterly figures.
Obviously, the stock price will go down?
Wrong, the market already knew that the car model failed, and the current price is already adjusted for that.
Stock market trading is only worth it if you have an information advantage. And obviously it is the one with the most capital that has the highest information advantage.
Anyone debating on the internet that "one could make money in the stock market by studying books" is such a joke. Who is going to have more information, the average joe with a book he read; or the guy with a billion dollars with information streaming into his AI.
I think the problem is that we have the ability to wipe out the whole earth many times over, and a lot of the governments and leaders who have that power are extremely unreliable.
I think the real cost will be the broadband. The whole map is 2 petabytes large, so each area has to be loaded seperately which will take up a lot of space.
In the meantime, I would really urge you to travel and see the beautiful sights and places which you might not be able to later on. Splurge a bit and see those places so you can have a memory of them and never have the feeling that you missed out on anything in life. The Great Barrier Reef, The Grand Canyon, visit a space observatory so you can see the other planets, other galaxies, etc.,
Especially considering your age, I would really really urge you to do this. If you dont have anyone to go with you; just do it solo. I hope you consider my suggestion.
I have helped make "theses" for people in "banking"/"management" and those require no work.