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by btdmaster 1581 days ago
Good point! Though, is it not true that these paper assets can be and are used to take out pseudo-gratis loans, hence in some sense they are real? Maybe the hypothetical billionaire is not worth that much, but the house he got against the paper wealth is definitely real and did not affect his financial power as much as it affects people buying it against 10% upfront.