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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

or by using the market by short-selling, using hedge funds, trading through illegal offshore numbered accounts, derivatives, etc.

Which is also just stealing surplus value by proxy, since return on investment is simply a share of the company's profits, which is itself just surplus value, or unpaid labor.