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> It's literally the free market at work--it's really simple, if you don't believe in whatever he says, don't speculate!

This, too, is actually addressed in the article - the whole point is that you're being forced to participate/speculate through this rapid inclusion in indices and mutual funds, because he's had the indices change the rules for him. So no, it's not that simple.

The indexes/mutual funds have a 1 year limit. The company would've been introduced into them anyway. You think SpaceX is going to collapse within a year? They fast forwarded the inevitable. But I do conceded that is shady to do. But to me, that seems to be the _actual_ main complaint of the article. Everything else is "i don't really like Elon Musk and don't believe in his vision"

I've never understood how common the appeal to "simplicity" is. It's also very simple to just kill everybody you disagree with. There isn't a simpler idea, really. What is the point? Why even write a comment?

i don't know what you're trying to say, it's a figure of speech

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