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by justeleblanc 1135 days ago
Nope. I'd rather there not be a thing called a stock market at all.
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Do you just plan to save your money in dollar bills hidden inside a pillow until you retire? If you want to invest it in any way, you probably want to avoid floating point numbers for keeping track of it.
I'd prefer living in a world where social security is enough for me not to worry about things like "saving money".
So no pensions, sovereign wealth funds, or scholarship funds? And by what mechanism is capital allocated?
Well, prepare the firing squads! What the world definitely needs is more fire squads, I presume.
I’m not a fan of the response either, but that’s a bit disingenuous.