Stock trading is the exact opposite of real business. A real business makes real things or fixes and maintains real things. Selling and delivering real things are also real businesses.
A stock trader doesn’t make or fix or sell anything real. He just makes sidebets ABOUT the people who make and sell. Above all he tries to alter the odds for the transactions he’s betting on. He corrupts and distorts the functions of real business.
In 2018 I was following several of the Tesla short traders. They were pushing stories about troubles with Tesla cars and troubles with Elon. The stories weren’t necessarily false, but they were one-sided and non-objective. I recognized the one-sided nature, but still enjoyed seeing skepticism about Elon.
I stopped following them in Feb 2020 when they started pushing HARD for maximum lockdowns to “fight” the ordinary or nonexistent “virus”.
Now the same lockdown pushers are pulling the other way. They’ve joined the “sudden death” brigade, hammering the side-effects of the useless vaccine.
Again they probably have some facts. If the “virus” exists, it is just a variant on the common cold. That’s a known fact, never argued even by the Public Death Demons.
Vaccines have never worked for this type of virus, and natural immunity is always enough for people who aren’t already near death. So any side-effect for such a vaccine is more risk than benefit. Vaccines work splendidly against polio and measles and smallpox, and all of those diseases are OFTEN deadly or disabling for healthy young people. So a certain number of side-effects are worth the trouble in those diseases.
The clincher is the two-headed coin. The SAME traders who were trying to shape the odds to favor their trades on the way into the crime are now trying to shape the odds to favor their trades on the way out of the crime.
Traders are a breed of professional criminal. They don’t make or repair things or people, and they don’t care about truth or morality. They aren’t even selling. They are purely cheating, purely trying to stack the deck in their favor for parasitic side bets.
The world would be vastly improved if we eliminated the entire stock trading setup from top to bottom. The Soviet system was capitalism without stocks, and it was significantly better for normal people.
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Speaking of Tesla, I still enjoy reading debunks of Elon’s nonsense. Here’s an expose of the fake “introduction” of his “semi”.
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