Stock trading is evil mega smackdown thread

[Mr. Perfect]

Ok, some ankle-biters are beating around the bush on this on other threads, I've had enough. If you have something intelligent to say on the topic, now is your time to do it. Fair warning, and in the interest of the new civility, I am loaded for bear, both barrels cocked locked and ready to rock. Just bring it.

So, if Warren Buffet buys a stock it goes up and he sells for a tidy profit, little orphans die how exactly? When George Soros shorts a stock, it goes down, the Amazon rainforest is destroyed how exactly? If Mr. Perfect sells a call or put, they go down in value and he buys them back for a profit the earth warms due to what process exactly?

Make your case here and now or I don't ever want to hear about it again.

[amos]

Go stroke your ego in private like a good Christian family man.

[Mr. Perfect]

Careful, uncivil speech can get somebody "hurt".

[amos]

[Mr. Perfect]

Boy has the quality of the trash talk really gone to the dogs.

[amos]

[Mr. Perfect]

F U, no F U, no F U, no F U, I get that's all you have left.

[amos]

[Mr. Perfect]

Why do all that when instead we can have an open and full airing of a topic that his been hinted at for years by many people?

BTW, you think about my nether regions way, way too much.

[amos]

[Mr. Perfect]

I just give my audience what they are capable of dealing with, in your case, well...

It appears the stuff for the mentally balanced doesn't make your radar screen.

[amos]

[Mr. Perfect]

Ok, that settles that. Now back to our originally scheduled program.

What is so evil about trading stocks?

[amos]

[Mr. Perfect]

Well no. A number of people have tried. So let them have their say.

[Colonel Sun]

[~]

Is a parasite necessarily evil?





Loaning a company money in the confidence they'll pay you back with interest is one thing, clipping widows and orphans for a 1/4 point pop seems quite another...

[Mr. Perfect]

[Endovelico]

It's funny how some people want to have a capitalist system without having to pay for its workings. I think Mr. P. is the most honest guy on this subject since he likes capitalism because it allows him to make money. Period.

[Colonel Sun]

[Mr. Perfect]

[Yukon Cornelius]

[Caskhades]

[Tinker]

[Rhapsody]

Mr. P., can you first enlighten us a bit more about how we, the other people, benefit from stock trading. Usually there is a trade off in the money people make off and on each other. Good doctors gets well payed for curing others.

The impression exists that money surfers, along side bank managers who rob their own banks via outrageous bonuses, are only interested in shaking as much as possible money out of other peoples pockets. I'm sure most of us overlook the trade off, the win-win here, that is existing, somewhere...