yea if i’d seen the tweet last week it probably would have been more appropriate to post then
still i’m admittedly pretty clueless about how the whole thing got going and it seems worth examining what psychological factors contributed most to its viral power. there’s definitely a kind of absurd poetry to it, and i know internet people eat that stuff up, but at the same time for it to be a last stand against virtuality or something i’d think the movement would have to contain some core of vested interest in actually seeing these businesses return to life, and i’m not aware that anyone gives much of a shit beyond “wouldn’t it be funny”
like - if the ultimate “successful” outcome (based on this idea of why the cause is motivating) is that Gamestop becomes notorious enough to remain a highly valued symbolic good with no physical significance, then what did it accomplish, exactly?
I came across this the other day. I have never had a Reddit account so I have no idea how hard it would be to construct a post like this but I was impressed.
I learned what shorting is years ago, then I kinda forgot the details, then learned it again, etc. Like it’s easy to understand the general idea of a trade that profits when a stock goes down, but the actual mechanics of borrowing a share from A, selling it to B, then paying interest on the share you no longer have to A until you buy an identical share from C to settle the debt is kind of mindbending and it doesn’t stick in my brain
I think the way Acquire handles stock growth, mergers, etc is very elegant. I’ve def. not played a board game with futures contracts, though. I think there’s a fine line between “fun” and “homework”, although something about an overly-complicated financial boardgame sounds sort of fun to me.
