It's all an artificial construct. Which is fine, as long as we stop pretending it's an objective marketplace governed by natural law.
The stock market is not a neutral arbiter of real value.
The stock market is not a neutral arbiter of real value.
The stock market is not a neutral arbiter of real value.
The stock market is not a neutral arbiter of real value.
The stock market is not...
It's all an artificial construct. Which is fine, as long as we stop pretending it's an objective marketplace governed by natural law.
Citigroup doesn't get to decide who lives and who dies.
And now they're freaking out if we literally start deciding it with our *money* in their "free" market.
They don't get to decide! /3
If the rules were fairly and equally applied, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup would be bankrupt and stripped to the bone. /4
But they're no different from Redditors. /5
It's all propped up. So why shouldn't we do some propping? /6
We, as voters, should be doing a lot more intervention to decide what we think is truly valuable and worth protecting. Instead of protecting hedge funds and letting *them* decide for profit. /end