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by fighterpilot 1894 days ago
I disagree.

The pricing of post-IPO stocks is responsible for trillions of dollars of capital allocation, since the amount that public companies can raise is linearly proportional to the stock price.

It's not an unimportant problem to get right, unless you think it doesn't matter whether billions of dollars get allocated to GME versus MRNA.

A clown show where GME gets all the funding (due to its high stock price) and real companies don't is not going to lead to a productive and healthy economy.