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by rtlfe 1947 days ago
How is it not ethical? They're stopping people from losing money buying something that is overpriced.
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Isn't the whole purpose of a free market with stock trading that people make those decisions themselves? I've certainly made bad trades in the past, but no one stopped me. Shouldn't I have been stopped as well then?

And if everyone is protected from losing money, we should just disable buying stocks at all for everyone, because you can always lose money.

But causing people to lose money who already bought it and couldn't sell, presumably