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20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After $730k Negative Balance

by alehul on 6/20/20, 2:42 PM with 3 comments

• by im3w1l on 6/20/20, 3:02 PM

  Previously discussed

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523379

• by adfdfgghhe2020 on 6/20/20, 3:14 PM

  Confetti popping everywhere,” says Brewster referring to the shower of colorful confetti Robinhood routinely deploys after customers make trades. “They try to gamify trading and couch it as investment.”

  They are borrowing the freemium game strategies used to develop player addiction and normalise the spending habit.

• by ianai on 6/20/20, 3:07 PM

  I think we’re changing to calling it “dies by suicide” to acknowledge the mental health aspect of suicide. “Commits suicidal” makes it sound more like a crime that needs to be policed instead of disorder to be treated.