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seizethecheese • yesterday at 9:16 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Each step of this is a leap:

> someone else is taking your retirement fond

> and putting them in companies overvaluated

> to move money from retirement fonds to random other people,

> and this is closer to gambling than investment


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pessimizer • yesterday at 9:32 PM

Define "leap." Do you mean

1) "I vaguely disapprove of this framing for reasons I choose not to explain?" Or do you mean,

2) "Each step violates any reasonable duty, and wouldn't be taken in a world that punished people for taking wild risks with the money of retirees, or in a world that expected the "risk" that people took when investing in stocks to actually be "risky" instead of ultimately backstopped by the taxpayers?"

I suspect 1.

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