Every time a bear market arrives, there's always someone who says a classic line:

"It dropped so much, yet you still want to buy the dip? Institutions aren't running a charity."
This statement sounds reasonable on the surface, but here's the problem: at the end of each bear market cycle, the market often really does crash hard. During BTC's 2018 and 2022 bear markets, the declines were massive, and a bunch of altcoins ultimately collapsed close to zero.
If you actually follow that logic, you run into an unexplainable contradiction:
If institutions aren't running a charity, then why does the market ultimately crash so badly anyway?
The truth is, the logic behind this statement often has a real flaw. The real issue isn't whether institutions are running a charity—it's that some people subconsciously hope that institutions will keep propping up prices and prevent the market from falling too far. That way their positions won't look too bad.
What some people say and what they actually believe are opposites:
They claim institutions won't run a charity, but what they really hope for is that institutions have unlimited ammunition and can support prices every time the market drops.
But markets have never worked that way. When a real bear market hits, whether it's BTC or a pile of altcoins, prices still fall as they should, and many projects even go straight to zero.
So the problem was never about whether institutions run a charity.
It's that some people are afraid of losing money, so they use this phrase to give their positions psychological comfort.#Gate广场AI测评官