Maybe you are right scardey and it’s a sickness, the same goes for some stock traders and other forms of investment/gambling. The only difference is vs. lets say someone with a substance abuse problem is that many of the amatuer r/e moguls and stock traders is that when things are going well, they get on your nerves, they brag and they throw money around, pretend to be something they are not and criticize those of us who are more prudent. Cycles always cycle, tables always turn, and they want help or pity when it happens, but we plodders, we piggies got no pity when we were getting priced out. Maybe that makes you a better man, when the choice is to be right or to be kind you choose to be kind, good for you, I’m still deciding how I feel but pity isn’t an option just yet. I haven’t evolved just yet, my wounds are still fresh and dudes like this caused them and are now costing me. Guess who is paying his electric bill, the other ratepayers, I’ve never had my own pizza oven or ranch, that kinda chaps my hide.
There is treatment available, it’s called books, he should start with the wealth of nations, a little invisible hand should cure him of his ills, doing big boy things without a big boy education, all science and no philosiphy, just never ends well.
