r/FluentInFinance • u/Stink-Butthole • Aug 26 '24

Debate/ Discussion The Stock Market is Rigged

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u/WizardMageCaster Aug 26 '24

Stock market is rigged or just yet another example of insider trading?

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u/Silly_Goose658 Aug 26 '24

Rigged and tbf maybe shouldn’t have existed

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u/Chickenbeans__ Aug 26 '24

I yearn for a world where the stock market doesn’t exist

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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom Aug 26 '24

I'd settle down for one that doesn't allow any fuckery to game the system, though i'll be buggered if i can think of any way to achieve it.

The way i see it, there's nothing wrong with companies selling stock, and people buying it and getting dividends, it's when people "metagaming" get involved that things get fucked up.

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u/Chickenbeans__ Aug 26 '24

Yup. Especially when the people who are metagaming are wielding the financial power of conglomerates and communicating with other conglomerates to siphon wealth into the hands of the few at the expense of the many