• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    my friend, you don’t even own your belongings any more. i wish that i could just make enough to live this out, but shareholders demand equity.

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      2 days ago

      The solution is to just become a shareholder obviously. Just get a small million dollar loan from your dad and get started.

      /s obviously

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        2 days 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?

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          2 days 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.