Shorting the market is a terrible idea if you want people to take you seriously. „Of course Ed Zitron is speaking against the datacenter build-out, he has financial interests that the whole thing collapses,“ people would say.

Aside: I also fundamentally disagree with you, I think shorting is never a good idea, nor is participating any type of market game a good idea. These market games are a rigged game where the owners of capital engage in systematic exploitation of the working classes. Everyone who makes money by gaming the market made it because hundreds of worker did not get their fair share for their work.

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gizajob 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You’re speaking in Marxist generalities which it would take too much typing to refute.

It sounds like participation in markets isn’t right for you so don’t do it.

	▲	runarberg 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Note I expressly labelled my “Marxist generalities” as an aside (kind of in an attempt to make my biases clear). You don‘t need to refute it if you don‘t want to. And even if you did very solidly refute them to the point of me saying “I was wrong about everything”, my actual point would still stand. Ed Zitron should in fact not short the market if he wants him self taken seriously.