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by marginalia_nu 1220 days ago
What if you got 100 back instead of 150?
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This incentivizes people to blindly make lots of normally risky and/or stupid investments with no fear of consequences and the potential of high upside if one of them pays off. This lack of consequences is subsidized by someone (taxpayers), who need to fund the burden of all the salaries of the unproductive companies that were paying salaries / buying materials / etc.
Then you lost money due to inflation or the opportunity cost of it being somewhere where it could have made money.