Trading

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trading

Title text: The silk neckerchief bubble was a dandy catastrophe.

Votey

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Than someone else you can make a profit. Give me five rocks for one meat.

Deal

Sucker I sell five rocks for two meats in next cave over.

Over time, traders became sophisticated when the ship nears harbor, use this flag system to signal my agent on the dock

We shall corner the silk neckerchief market?

Once the computer was developed a new form of competition arose. We'r laying fiber optic cable in a straight line from new york to chicago so traders have to use it or be l.A. Milliseconds behind the competition

And people say americans don't build big things anymore/

In a sense, this is insider trading, in that only certain people can afford the speed

It is not unfair! Any mom and pop hedge fund operation can buy their own bandwidth on a secret short-term communication monopoly!

Economists proposed rules to fix the problem how about making every transaction take a full ten seconds?

So I guess you don't want regular folks to enjoy femtosecond accurate pricing data!

When that failed, we took a new course. Instead of fixing the problem, we harness it.

Stock trades may only be transmitted using room temperature superconductors.

Once a new tech was solved, the rules changed you may only all traders trade via only electrons made must be based hypersonic via fusion reactors on mars passenger may be used for jets stock data transmission.

We were up to, it was too late. By the time trading firms realized what

Oh god, we've moved to a post-scarcity society! I can't use money to buy status any more!

Fortunately, the problem workeo itself out. Give me status, plebeians/

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Why cant we do this?!

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