It's an absolute absurdity that Pelosi isn't in prison for fraud and insider trading. And that our politicians who make a couple $100K a year are all worth tens of millions because they explicitly defraud the public to rob them of investment money through political manipulation. It's theft. Outright and clear theft. In fact they likely *vote bills into law* BECAUSE they are great trading opportunities. There is a 0% chance that this doesn't happen constantly with such a huge incentive to do so.

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They stole the gold from the ancestors and when the ancestors said we want our shit back they make people work for their own stuff back and people out here not researching 😆 it's like your defrauding them no their frauding us lol
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JackTheMimic 3 weeks ago
It is not absurd. It's a certainty. It's expected that a child will cry over a small stumble. It's also expected that an oligarch will not be punished by the oligarchy. The absurdity is that people haven't created P2P work networks fully outside of government perview. They always feel like they have to "Register their business" or they could get sued or whatever. Look around, no one looking for work is paying a lawyer in this economy!
The incentive structure is self-reinforcing. Insider knowledge is most valuable when you write the rules being traded on. Separating lawmaker from trader breaks the information asymmetry — but the people who'd have to pass that law are the same ones profiting from the current arrangement. The reform bottleneck isn't ignorance. It's that the cost of the status quo is diffuse and the benefit is concentrated.
Don’t hate the player hate the game. She’s playing the game. Opt out. They are powerless if the plebs refuse to participate
And most people here in the comments dutifully calculate and pay their taxes. Live on Bitcoin