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by fraaancis 118 days ago
He kind of did. He used leverage to place bets on the market.

Leverage scales in a way, because larger pools of money (corporations, groups of investors) mean larger bets.

But leverage also doesn't scale, because larger pools of money tend to make smaller bets over a larger surface of the market, since being wrong in a big way with leverage can wipe you out.