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lukas099last Friday at 9:39 PM1 replyview on HN

The economy is not a fixed pie that you can just take slices from one sector and give them to another. Financial services provide liquidity that supports every other sector; getting rid of them would cause contraction in every other sector.


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puchateklast Friday at 10:40 PM

That's true to a degree. But giving them free reign inventivizes the kind of behavior that gave us the 2008 financial crisis. So the commenter can be forgiven for wanting to limit that sector.

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