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hackyhackytoday at 1:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

Your comment does not address the (imho reasonable) criticism that the described system incentivizes gambling as the key to wealth, rather than labor.

There are many problems with a gambling based economy, not least among them that over a long enough time line, all the money ends in very few hands.


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WalterBrighttoday at 6:50 PM

> a long enough time line, all the money ends in very few hands.

You're assuming the economy is zero sum, which it obviously is not.

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sokolofftoday at 1:43 PM

I don’t view long-term investing in productive companies as anything close to gambling.

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