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The stock exchange – I know nothing about it, you know nothing about it, and to the both of us, those words likely represent a dreadful and boring facet of the money-centred, vain adult life. To speak the truth, I used to revel in my ignorance about the topic, proud of my rejection of what seemed to me just another invention of the laissez-faire capitalism¹ I so wholly despise. I took pride in my puzzlement when other people brought it up, as though my naivete were proof of wiser delegation of time and a form of rebellion against anyone who might prospect for prospering. But over the past week, in between bouts of existential dread and dulling TikTok scrolling marathons, I’ve learned of a far better way to „stick it to the man“ (‚man‘, referring to the real-life DiCaprios² of Wall Street³). It involves Reddit, GME⁴ and a stock market manipulation technique colloquially known as „Short Squeezing“.

Am 23. Juni entschied nun die britische Öffentlichkeit im Rahmen eines Referendums über den Verbleib des Vereinigten Königreichs in der Europäischen Union (EU). Weiterlesen „Brexit“ →