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mvdtnz
2mo ago
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Oil futures or any other commodity purchase that doesn't result in the buyer taking actual physical ownership of what they purchase is an obscene gambling market with perverse incentives yes correct.
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isubkhankulov
2mo ago
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How will commodity producers (oil companies, farmers) hedge their risk / stabilize their prices without speculators and their “perverse incentives”?
broken-kebab
2mo ago
We will gather special people, very wise, and completely honest. They'll form a committee, and we will call it Gosplan, comrade!
DaedalusII
2mo ago
by this logic investing in SAFEs is obscene gambling with perverse incentives and we should shut down the venture capital industry
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