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		xur17 on March 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Killing TurboTax I'm not sure it would - it seems like this would discourage risk taking. Owning stock in a startup would be a terrible move in this case.

acjohnson55 on March 10, 2021 | [–]

It would certainly discourage risk taking on highly volatile instruments, and I'm not so sure that's a net contributor to the economy.

masklinn on March 4, 2021 | | [–]

Still sounds like a feature. The unicorn chase for value explosion is not a positive.

diordiderot on March 4, 2021 | [–]

_Most_ capital is not put at "risk".

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