• Entrepreneur: “I own a company. There are 100 shares, each representing 1/100 ownership stake. This matters for setting the direction of the company. Would you like to buy 5 shares?”
• You: “Yes, it sounds profitable.”
• Finance Asshole: “I am selling 20 shares of the company if anyone wants to buy them.”
• Anyone: “But you don’t own any shares?”
• Finance Asshole: “It’s called a short sale, idiot. Don’t you know finance? Did you graduate from Retard University?”
• SEC, Board of Governors consisting of 10 former, still invested Finance Assholes: “I see nothing. Robinhood did the right thing to safeguard liquidity.”
• <120 shares of Company now exist without Company having issued new shares to raise capital. Think of this as me being able to secure a loan by using your house as collateral.>
• Finance Asshole: That was very profitable. I will now short 1000 more shares.
• <Companies who aren’t careful lose control of their Board of Governors and get sold at discount for parts - see: Richard Gere in Pretty Woman>
• Aware Investors: “Hey Entrepreneur, Finance Asshole and SEC are doing this by keeping all traded shares registered under ownership of Cede and Company, and fudging their books as to how many shares are actually being traded, can I please register my shares with you directly?”
• Entrepreneur: “Sure!”
• Board Meeting: “Guys, isn’t it funny how 110 shares of stock are registered directly, with 800 still trading in the market, when we only ever issued 100 shares?”
• Board Meeting: “Did you just say, ‘Short and Curlies’?”
• Retarded Communists on Reddit: “Hey everybody, I found the failure of capitalism!”
• (likely:) Archaeologist: Wow! It turns out, Finance Asshole is descended directly from one of the money changers who was ripping off the Israelites of Yehuda using similar scams that Yeshua drove out of the Second Temple with a whip!

Cede and Company: https://greatawakening.win/p/19BGmCQc4q/cede--co--you-already-own-nothin/

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