Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 3w

U can't be serious why not buy stocks?

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Anonymous #1 3w

Dividends come from revenue that was generated from other people’s labor, not my ownership. In a better system, those funds would go to the people who actually created that wealth instead of the people who buy a ticket to take it from them. I don’t want to buy into a system I believe is fundamentally parasitic in nature.

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 3w

Arguably then you just shouldn’t buy anything from anybody unless they themselves made it. Capitalism is an all-encompassing system that you can’t really avoid. The tendency for the rate of profit to fall and cyclical debt crises will bring capitalism down as it progresses its technology

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Anonymous #4 3w

Ideally yes, profit wouldn’t exist. But we have to work with the world in which we currently live. Trade stock or don’t. Buy ethically, buy less, and by god get organized.

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Anonymous #1 3w

My personally reason for not trading is because it’s a. stress-inducing, and b. just gambling by another name. And gambling is more fun when you actually go gamble for real. Blackjack dealers hate to see me coming

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Anonymous boariskarloff 3w

By that definition anything is gambling though. Owning money is gambling because value changes. Some ways of investing are gambling for sure but just invest and leave overtime not rly gambling imo

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Anonymous #1 3w

“Owning money is gambling because value changes” you’re seeing the light #1

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Anonymous boariskarloff 3w

Buddy by that definition owning anything is gambling

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Anonymous boariskarloff 3w

This made me giggle

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Anonymous #6 3w

This made me jiggle

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Anonymous #7 3w

Me when I rely on exploitation for my own personal gains

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Anonymous #5 3w

This made me wriggle

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Anonymous #5 3w

Any company with stocks valuable enough to be trading relies on exploitation to boost their stock value. When you buy those stocks you profit off the exploitation of the workers and reinforce the ideas of capitalism

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 3w

There are plenty of companies that don’t issue dividends though

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Anonymous boariskarloff 3w

So you’d rather pander to fascism?

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 3w

This situation is black and white. You either fuck people over or you don’t. Ignorance is not an excuse

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Anonymous OP 3w

Yeah, that’s absolutely what I meant. /s

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Anonymous #1 3w

I guess the only “non-gambling” might be to hold precious metals and other hard assets. And actually keep them yourself, not through some ETF that might not be fully backed

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Anonymous boariskarloff 3w

Stop treating Nazis with respect and stand up for people for once in your life

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Anonymous OP 3w

I feel like we’ve “spectrumed” a little too close to the sun. So many people throw their hands up and say “well I just don’t see it that way” on so many subjects and cave into the shitty system . Not every thought is correct and falls on some spectrum of correctness. Some people are just fucking wrong.

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Anonymous #6 3w

And the people furthering capitalism are just fucking wrong

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Anonymous OP 3w

You are going to convince zero people by interacting with them in this way. Get real

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Anonymous OP 3w

Yup

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Anonymous #6 3w

And those trading stocks have absolutely zero moral justification

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Anonymous OP 3w

I don’t trade stocks cause that’s not my field and I have no interest in doing so. But I absolutely see your point and profiting off of other people‘s work rather than giving that profit to the workers. It’s inherently a bunk system that will piss people off

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Anonymous #6 3w

What about investing in companies that give stock as part of employee compensation?

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Anonymous #8 3w

Shockingly I work for a company that does this. And I love it. It’s a start up company and employees are immediately given a share of the company. I think I just naturally live in a work world lmao

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Anonymous #8 3w

Like I said, I’m not a stock trader and I don’t engage in that market. But I feel like I see the best side of it. I don’t have to worry about stocks because my pay is already directly related to the company’s value.

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Anonymous #6 3w

Ahhh nice!

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