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Then don't buy any stock in any company you don't absolutely trust? Why should you be able to profit from Tesla's wrongdoings, but not suffer just punishment from them too?


Why would you absolutely trust any company?

I believe the general argument here would be that if you invest in a company and they later are caught doing something illegal or unpopular, you suffer when your shares lose value.


If there's any company you absolutely trust, you're doing it wrong.


So, which company do you absolutely trust, to buy their stocks?


What about ETFs and people who own those?


Indirection should not make difference.


Sorry class but the schoolteachers were all arrested for murder because their pension fund invested in a fund that bought shares in a company that bought another company that held shares in a company who owned a negligently maintained warehouse that burned down with two people trapped inside.


So someone should go to jail because their pension fund owns an ETF that owns a company that did something wrong, got it.




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