People are acting like they've discovered fire and there is going to be the ”next sure thing” that'll redistribute money to average Joe on reddit after this, but is being a retail day trader actually a reliable thing to make money?

One of my friends was really hyped about this shit after college. He read a bunch of books, followed some finance gurus online, set up an account and played with like $3,000 worth of blue chips for year to get experience. Ended up with about the same amount of money despite sinking a lot of time into this and concluded it wasn't worth the hussle.