01-15-2025, 01:56 PM
(01-15-2025, 09:51 AM)19Bones79 Wrote: Your whole reply is a treasure trove but this stuck with me specifically :"
"This is why I've long maintained that short selling should be illegal. Anyone, given enough money, can intervene to make something fail. Failure is easy...it's success which is hard. Doesn't matter what it is."
I think it's not that difficult to envision a better world, the problem starts with whose really in power and why is this world developing in such a way to the point where a small group of people will have control over our every move?
All our leaders are on board or they are unwitting yet complicit dupes.
The world won't be fixed and made a better place for all without these sinister fine print issues that ultimately entrap us even more.
Because they don't want that. Whatever we find preferable or acceptable right now will be yanked out from under us when they feel the time is right.
I don't care about semitism or antisemitism either way as per their definition, I just know they are both in the way of getting anywhere close to fixing our ever-growing list of dire problems.
At it's very core, the foundation of short selling is based on betting that other people will lose. "Other" people. Think about that for a moment.
In order to truly 'win' at that game, all you need is enough money to create a situation where other people DO lose. And then, guess what? You WIN.
Doesn't matter if it's a blowtorch, or a checkbook...or both.