>>509800507Because quite obviously it's a self destructive one.
>self inflatingMeans the value of all things is devaluing and therefore massive unperceived costs are being absorbed by everyone who refuses to perceive them.
Eventually the investors and shareholders shall leave their gilded cages and realize they have purchased for the grand sum of EVERYTHING, Greater Zimbabwe.
I ponder this daily, I mentally debate if it's a cruelty or a mercy the process happens so slow people cannot perceive it.
>obviously you understand the system so why bet against it when it is designed to operate as you describe.It's blatantly dishonest and immoral. You may as well ask
>why don't you simply counterfeit your own money? There would functionally be no difference between investing in USD, Or any modern currency for that matter, and just counterfeiting bills. One is a felony the other is a tax write off.
>isn't shorting the same thing? Yea but the benefactor is statistically likely to be the buyer of the share. In this, there can be no greater donation to the modern market system that the short seller, who, as a gracious and magnanimous gambler, puts it all on red for the benefit of the house.
In this, I am the only one betting on the system, for if it ever falters, the shorters will get nothing, investing as they do in cash only.