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by dheera 977 days ago
Every time you all drive prices of stocks down, layoffs happen. Think twice before you drive the prices of a stock down again, you're part of the cause. Consider selling at a higher price than you bought the stock for.

If you drive stock prices down three times a year, layoffs will happen three times a year.

If you drive stock prices up, they'll go on a hiring spree. It's that simple.

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This simplistic, wrong (and juvenile) reasoning is the caricature of the tech bubble bursting again.
> you all

Who all? This isn’t exactly a short-selling subreddit.

Usually I instinctively want to upvote anything that's gotten such a beatdown.

In this case, though, it's deserved. Nobody can "drive the price down." That's a futile pursuit, and would be illegal if it worked.

Unless you are the CEO it's hard to personally drive down a stock.
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