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Re:Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went priv... by andrepd on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:33AM (#25941521)
> Ideally finance is meant to be about allocation of capital

What does it matter what it is "ideally", if it was never that in practice? Ideally communism is a stateless moneyless classless society, let's get working on dissolving the state then?

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Re:Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went priv... by nsonha on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:48AM (#25941667)
That means the market works to that end to some degree. "Not ideal" is very different from "let's allocate capital randomly"
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