because it’s a free country. why would we restrict people from taking loans and who is the government to say the loan has to be denominated in dollars instead of shares?

short sellers have also discovered a lot of fraud companies because they have a monetary incentive

and for society as a whole, we should want the markets to price things accurately. things that are overpriced just means capital that isn’t being used somewhere else efficiently

it may seem ugly but capitalism is creative destruction. it’s an evolutionary system, the weak need to die so the strong can thrive