>>27412025
It depends on what you want out of life.
Mark Cuban gets it, this is about the capacity of decentralized social networks to be a major player int he stock market, the shorting/hedge fund angle is a red herring.
Millions of people investing 500 on the premise that "if I lose it, so what?" is a different ballgame if they all invest in the same stock. If they all did that randomly, so what, but if they all invest in the same stock, and they hold, rather than trying to sell for short-term profits, you could call it a ponzi scheme, except there is always another stock.
IMO the litmus test for talking about this is if you acknowledge that, other than dividends, a stock is basically an artwork, its value is not connected to company performance, except insofar as the company pays dividends, or becomes insolvent/delisted.
Maybe this guy values things other than money---and that could be "retarded," but that is basically the sort of high functioning psychopathy that brought us to this place, the "why would I care about anyone else, all I care about is if I got mine" attitude.
There is no free money, every dollar won on the stock market comes from someone who loses, but why should boomer pension funds win? Why should traditional companies? The issue here is the capacity for millions of retards to be market players, if they coordinate.