Never expected I'd spend the week arguing against some kind of hard distinction between stocks and futures or shorts. It's fundamentally the same category, predictive investments. They're all gambles. Middle class folks have just developed entitlement to comfortable returns.
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Do you really not understand why trading on leverage is different? Hedges shorted MORE than 100% of GME stock in existence. This is not the same as selling some stock you own.
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Replying to @cyberpyre @Alephwyr
The leverage that hedgefunds have is bad, trivially so, I'm an anarchist, I have very sharp opinions about wealth inequality. But one form of predictive investment is categorically the same as the other. Nuke the hedgefunds, but don't pretend there's some difference.
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Let’s say I invest $100k in a friends’ new bar and that gets me 30% ownership which causes the bar to exist may or may not produce a profit or a good bar etc. That’s not different to you than $100k “invested” in exotic derivatives?
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There's enough texture to different types of investments that you could find distinctions anywhere. I think that's the essential point.
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