• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    honest question: i don’t know enough to know why it might be good, but isn’t the whole idea of the stock market just kinda wrecking fucking everything?

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Oh yes, it definitely is.

      But shareholders are the ones with actual power over companies. They are the ones the corporate executives fear. Not the government or the public. Assuming the execs don’t also own a majority of shares that is.