He's implying that workers should work hard and give all the earnings and IP to the govt so they can "redistribute" and "rehire" for communal good.

Naked short selling through unlimited "Puts" is totally LEGAL for these hedge-funds, but when people caught them pants down they are using every ILLEGAL move to cover their asses and losses.

These are the corrupt and insane people who should be punished not the people who sussed out their bullshit!

What Robinhood and other platforms are doing is market manipulation which is illegal.

The legal and reasonable thing would be to allow trading these stocks with additional "e-signs" letting the individual know that there are additional risks here.

That would actually help the retail investor.

But these brokers and buddies are happy to help their hedge fund buddies!!

bad idea. indian companies haven't shown any competence or compassion in this space.

if they force Apple to pre-install appstore on phones? say bye-bye to $10 B manufacturing dream.

Having local controls and slightly stricter rules is good! But these chinese-commie style is bad!

You are right, but Options trading isn't available to people with less than $5k deposits on Robinhood and I think same is true with margins.

Robinhood is more agressive when it comes to margin calls, that actually protects inexperienced investors.

I hate hit pieces, Robinhood actually provides a REAL opportunity for poor people with aptitude and high risk tolerance a way out of poverty!

Exactly, It is ridiculously hard for poor people to invest in securities without Robinhood.

The reason this regulation exists is because enough people doing it is systemic risk.

You losing all your money impacts you. You and millions of other people losing all their money at the same time impacts society; they can't pay bills to their creditors, then those creditors can't pay, and soon enough we're talking bank runs and financial collapse.

Regardless of the intention behind the rules, the actual effect of so-called accredited investor rules is simply that the most potentially lucrative investments are only available to the already-rich class. The general public gets the dog investments.

If I want to gamble away a windfall $200K inheritance, I can easily and legally go to Vegas and have my loss "impact society." Why shouldn't I instead be allowed to invest that in a startup?

The country is generally not all at the slots at the same time, and if you do dumb things in Vegas that basically impacts you and the casino and any immediate creditors.

The entire country is in the stock market (401k and pensions, etc.) so gambling with valuations has real impact on things that aren't just you, and the blast radius of harm is so much larger. We already saw this happen in the Great Depression; bank runs, sudden, massive tightening of liquidity that screwed over creditors and suppliers in a cascading fashion, etc.

The real fundamental issue is that QE as the overwhelming response to 2007 mostly just massively inflated stocks and other rich people assets without meaningfully improving the financial prospects of middle and working class people, so now everyone is clamoring at the gates to be let in at the stock market. Look at how quickly BTC became a numbers game rather than the actual useful intrinsic value, with people who couldn't give two shits about the blockchain.

This is a perfectly sane position if your actions only affect yourself. The issue is that your actions affect others.

How? In your world there is no concept of personal responsibilty?

If I lose ALL my investments, it doesn't change my way of life or status in society. I have no dependents or collateral.

On the other hand, if my investments pay off, I have a real shot of upward social mobility within 5 years, instead of 5 decades.