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> that that the overall effect on anything is going to be negligible.

It's not the effect on the market you should be worried about. It's the effect on democracy. If you have a culture of people comfortable with doing very well thank you off the back of the broad knowledge they have access to that is not-quite-non-public-but-buried-in-the-minutes, then you are tolerating the first tier of the rot.

The second tier of the rot is insider trading.

The third tier is the insider trading that is happening when nobody cares, like in the current regime.

The third tier of the rot is the grift. You can see the grift happening now.

You have to go broken-windows-policy on this or you have nothing.





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