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tickleMyBigPoop t1_j24haai wrote

Reply to comment by gizamo in Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts by Brook030

> Oil and coal companies

Right now the average price of petrol in germany is 6.802 USD a gallon. In the USA the average price is 3.159 USD per gallon. In a oil heavy state like texas it's 2.751 USD per gallon. US gas prices being as low as they are is purely due to domestic production in the americas and massive refinery capacity.

Tell me which price point harms poor people more. But with your logic lets just ban all oil and gas companies from operating in the US surely we'll be better off.

>hedge funds

i can see you have no idea what hedge funds actually do, hint it's in the name. Hedge funds don't hurt people, they simply hedge against risk. If you're one of the few workers with a pension and the market waters are bearish you better hope your accounts are managed by a hedge fund.

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gizamo t1_j251p86 wrote

Tell me you entirely missed my point with illogical bad-faith arguments.

> i can see you have no idea what hedge funds actually do.

I can see you have no idea how to view a person's history. I've been actively trading since the '90s, and I've been contracted as a programmer by multiple hedge funds.

> But with your logic lets just ban all oil and gas companies from operating in the US surely we'll be better off.

Jfc. Was that warm up mental gymnastics for you, or is the peak of your absurdity? Smh.

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