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by amelius 766 days ago
Maybe that would be a good thing. I wouldn't mourn the destruction of the stock market as it's just a giant wealth-gap increasing casino. Trading has nothing to do with underlying value.
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I fully agree. The stock market is just a giant machine that pulls money out of systems.
>The stock market is just a giant machine that pulls money out of systems.

So you think the multi-trillion dollar stock market, consisting of thousands of global companies, has no use beyond "pulling money out of systems"? Weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Just to say, weirdness happens.