There is a workaround to the moral problem like hedging with CFD, because you don’t technically own shares and thus not funding companies you dislike, you are simply betting on whether the company’s share price will either go up or down. But as mentioned, it is leveraged and therefore betting and gambling. There is also holding fees which eats away at the profits in CFD.
I have a colleague who invested in Palantir. I mentioned to him of the controversy with the company but he just shrugged it since he made some money before selling the shares. I don’t really pass judgement on many those who invest in unethical companies simply because the old fashioned way of working and saving simply doesn’t cut it anymore. The older generations could party and travel in their twenty’s, and buy a house and have family in their thirty’s. The younger generation can’t really do that anymore.
I also do investing and I realised that it’s hard to be ethical under a capitalist system. There are index funds I want to invest in because of lower initial investment requirement, but I don’t like the companies listed in those funds. And thus I have to individually invest in companies I like, but I have little gains because my capital is spread out across various equities.
Serious question, why are those who hit a bully get punished instead? No wonder there is rise of authoritarianism because the bully are practically worshipped and given a pass. Bullying is embedded in the culture.
They are undoing New Deal. It’s all part of the plan.
Anything but socialised housing!
This is feudalism in another name. This is precisely techno-feudalism to give it a more updated term.
And being fed by humans is amazing.
We laugh at this, but the older generations still remember when the mortgage interest was this high. I don’t know where you guys are from, but there is an old news reel from the 1970s here in Ireland when young families at the time complained of “high” house prices of up to 72,000 pounds, with mortgage interest of 14%. The folks on social media had their jaws dropped on learning of how high the interest rate was, but how cheap the overall property value was back then. Now how much are those said houses at the moment? They are now worth between €690,000 to €1.5 million. High valuation but the interest rate is down in proportion. In any case, only few could afford to buy houses these days due to inflation and wages haven’t kept up with it.
WHAT’S IN THE AIR FRYER?!
Companies go along where the social pendulum swings. Only few companies genuinely care of social progress.
Reactance is weird. When I was in school my parents telling me to study actually puts me off from studying. But now I am a working adult, I had to let being bossed around by peers from another team that I support so that I don’t get into trouble. Good thing I got a promotion so I don’t have to deal with them eejits.
I really have no sympathy for people who get screwed over again and again by the same person and don’t seem to understand why.
It’s called coping. They can’t admit to themselves that they’ve been wrong.
Don’t ask whether it’s distraction from Epstein list, ask whether everything bad is distraction from climate change and wealth inequality.
It’s not even AI that’s the problem wrt to making humanoid robots, it’s the lack of dexterity of automatons to do even the most basic tasks that most human can do. Even if AI improves, robots that can move like humans is still the hurdle.
The FBI only put a bulletin warning that masked individuals might be pretending to be government agents, just now? After nine months of terrorism? How is this not seen as authoritarian move? This is like with any full blown authoritarian states where the dear leader says something vague tantamount to directing a purge. And when enough people were purged, the dear leader would then say that his goons had gone too far from his original intent and order them to stop. This is not the first time America did something similar; the red scare and the McCarthy’s communist witch hunts went on long enough to tarnish people’s reputation, before Harry Truman made a speech calling out what is happening as unfair to people whose reputations were ruined. The powers-that-be know what the heck their doing and the last minute “call to sanity” is to white wash their deliberate intentions.
Mayor Mamdani
Red Apple
They actually have nice ring to it.
I have a 50mm lens that came with the camera itself. However, it’s not great for long distance shot. I need better and wider lens for that purpose.
I really need to buy a new lens for my camera. This meme explains it all for anyone who would like to ask me why I haven’t bought one yet.
Let alone having A relationship. I still have to sort my own baggages before I enter into one.
Because they have been doing insider trading.
Depending how one looks at it, even normal investing can be considered gambling. But at the very least, investing is not leveraged, and it is surer and more calculated risk than sports or race gambling. The latter is fixed because of behind the scenes corruption; but with investing, it’s more regulated and so long as you invest in trustworthy companies, it’ll be fine.