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Yes, I said that within the context of this thread, which is PFOF…

If you’re arguing that there’s a conflict of interest between Robinhood and its customers, then sure. But that’s got nothing to do with PFOF.

> Agree to disagree. We regulate smoking, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, gambling, and other behaviors that have self harm. This is no different.

Sure, I never said no regulation. You gotta stop with the strawman attacks. We regulate these industries, as we ought to do with finance, but we nonetheless allow people to drink/smoke themselves to death or gamble themselves into oblivion.

I’d rather live in a society where a small number people do enormous bad to themselves, over one where the state makes decisions for everyone.




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