@Degen_Life_ There is nothing wrong with short selling.
Without a government, it would be how "Joint Stock Companies" were regulated. [ Corporations as we know them would be impossible ]
Know something the company doesn't want us to know? Short their stock, and make your announcement.
@thegratefulphil@lessin They want to tax unrealized gains. The question is, are the people stupid enough to allow it?
The teachers' unions are working hard to "make it so".
@tiberiusfiles Interesting. That might be a good strategy if you want to remove that entire group of people.
But you'd want to be careful about people recognizing that that was your aim.
@beinlibertarian If you don't Bomb Iraq, you can't have any Street Lights!
How can you have any Street Lights, if you don't Bomb Iraq?
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@ProudSocialist Amazing that it could do that in a society that is >50% socialist ... that is, the government steals and redistributes > 50% of what you create.
@elonmusk Yeah, imagine living with 10,000 of your closest friends on a 100x100 island. And the population is falling. The density could depo below one person per square foot! UNACCEPTABLE!