I'm often seen as the more successful and stable member of friend groups. The number of people that come to me talking about their puts, calls, crypto, and other high risk investment play is way to high. I always tell them "I invest long, so I don't know anything about that" and try to steer them towards more predictable investment options. No matter how many people I point to real estate deals they could feasibly get into, and talk about how much I've made on real estate, not one of these people have gone down that route. In the way they talk, they actually want to gamble and don't want to grow wealth. I think it might also be the marshmallow experiment, because they also don't want to discuss any play that I measure in years.
I'm seeing this in more demographics than just young male. I was looking into a business plan and talking to a trusted boomer about the business plan. They have more experience in some specific aspects, and I was looking to identify more risks. Towards the end of the conversation they told me "of course, I was never a gambler", to which I replay "neither am I, that's why I'm talking to you and doing my homework."