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Re:Income Inequality (2016) by throwaway1748 on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:45PM (#16524214)
Has investing in the stock market become democratized? Sure you could invest in Amazon at a low market cap back in the 90's, but what about Uber, Stripe, Dropbox, or any recent breakout 'unicorn'?

The privatization that has happened in financing high-growth startups is not great news for Joe Q Public

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Re:Income Inequality (2016) by skookumchuck on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:25PM (#16524579)
The market has gone up 30% in just the last year, and that has nothing to do with high-growth startups.

Amazon has doubled in just the last two years. So did Netflix, Apple, etc., all long past their IPOs.

This was all available to John Q Public. Yet all I hear are complaints.

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Re:Income Inequality (2016) by dv_dt on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:22PM (#16531787)
So, to paraphrase, the market in it's infinite generosity allows paupers to invest in stocks as well as billionaires?
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