A Korean girl messaged me today.

She said the Korean stock market had just triggered another circuit breaker, and Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix were down 10%.
This is the worst summer she’s experienced since becoming an adult. Last year, she was jealous of her coworkers who had made a lot of money, so she threw all her savings into the stock market and added five times leverage. In the end, she ran into the circuit breaker and got liquidated immediately, losing the savings from five years.
She said she feels very sad, as if she has fallen into humanity’s darkest era.