Forcing new costs onto new market entrants in a highly speculative venture based industry is good, logical, and necessary.
You are trying to use standard college-level market dynamics in a hyper-speculative domain, where basic economic market rational have very little logical reality
Assuming you are the average person, and not a financial professional, using actual financial hedging instruments properly is unlikely, and far more likely to just increase risk and lower expected return.
A realistic way for an American citizen to reduce risk in the current market is to have a globally diversified portfolio that under-allocates to the US.
This is soley a list of how to be explicitly negative internally and externally, the people in this thread equating it to disorders need to re-think the text. Its a list of what not to do as a human.
With respect to all; there is an incredible amount of subtle communications that go into standard conversations