• @[email protected]
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    -61 year ago

    You brought an economics argument to a rage thread. OP isn’t making a technical claim when they say “rent seeking behavior”, they’re angry and using it as a synonym for “greedy people”.

    • @hark
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      91 year ago

      Some jackass buying a bunch of shares that were already issued and then flipping them for a profit isn’t doing shit other than enriching themselves. You might as well argue that scalpers are important. Oh wait, I have seen that brain-dead argument with “pRoViDeS LiQuIdItY!!1”

      • @Cryophilia
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        11 year ago

        It does, a little bit. Stock offerings or buybacks are dependent on the market price.

    • @TotallynotJessica
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      31 year ago

      Ah yes, the people are angry about things they have every reason to be angry about. Thank goodness someone used a shallow pseudointellectual argument that glosses over basic truths!

      • @SCB
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        -11 year ago

        People are angry about things they don’t understand.

        Case in point, the poster above you:

        Some jackass buying a bunch of shares that were already issued and then flipping them for a profit

        Thats… not a shareholder.

    • @SCB
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      -11 year ago

      I don’t tilt at these windmills for the people arguing nonsense, but for people scrolling by.

      • @Cryophilia
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        21 year ago

        Hello, person scrolling by here. Thank you.

        • @SCB
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          -51 year ago

          Commies aren’t people

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              1 year ago

              It’s not fascist to dislike commies who drop by just to say something as snarky as it is stupid.

              I returned your comment in kind.