Instead of occupying Wall Street, perhaps the greater need is to populate Wall Street and participate in capital gains. Stop worrying about whether the tax rate is unfair and hop aboard the explosive force known as capital markets. The target group is people not invested in the markets but who expend cash on drugs.
Transfer the high from engaging in risky behavior associated with drug use, to the high achieved from trading in stocks and bonds. That nickel bag can buy a piece of Bank America, well almost, and the dealer works out of an office rather than an ally. You can even buy it over the internet. The neurotransmitters of the brain stimulated by drug use are the same triggers found in the ventral caudate nucleus that stock traders experience. Studies by CIT and others demonstrate that dopamine is the chemical responsible for pleasure responses in the brain. Drug users at the poverty level will soon become stock traders at the capital gains tax level. The benefits are ones both traders and users have agreed upon. In fact, studies demonstrate that drug users have the genotype that might enable them to become the next titans of wall street based on their increased dopamine response sensitivity and propensity to assume risk.
Drug users in poverty adopt this strategy. Adopt it now.
From investing in the stock market to trying the new sushi bar down the street, you make decisions every day that balance risks and rewards. Researchers working at the interface of neuroscience and economics—neuroeconomists, as they’ve dubbed themselves—have been watching brains at work to understand this decision-making process. Two studies involving Caltech neuroeconomists have identified certain regions of the brain that are responsible for interpreting risk as well as reward. These regions are controlled by a neurotransmitter called dopamine, which, among other functions, stimulates the brain’s pleasure centers.
http://eands.caltech.edu/...
Outside of economics, researchers have recently identified genetic
predictors of “sensation-seeking” that have been linked to risky and impulsive
behaviors. We examine the implications of these genetic polymorphisms for
economic behavior.Our analysis indicates that the 7-repeat allele of theDRD4
gene that regulates dopamine uptake in the brain predicts risk-taking and
time preferences in economic experiments that allow for ambiguity, losses and
discounting. These genetic polymorphisms can also be used to directly predict
financial choice patterns that are consistent with previous findings in the behavioral
genetics literature.
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