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Re: Gen: Is trading gambling?



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Enough already! Can we get back to the reason for this forum?

Mike Harvey

TheGonch at MediaKat wrote:

> As far as I can tell, this discussion about trading being a zero-sum
> game is just a variant of Karl Marx's analysis of the contribution of
> labor versus capital. Capital means nothing, so profits made from
> activities that require capital intermediation are 'stolen' from labor.
>
> When you put in the right words, you can make very intelligent people
> believe it. The Russians were taken in for 75 years before realising
> that the theory doesn't work in practice.
>
> JMHO