• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Venture Capital is probably the best way to drain the billionaires. Those billions in capital weren’t wasted, that money just went to pay people who do actual work for a living. What good is all that money doing just sitting in some hedge fund account?

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I think you have a point here. Venture capitalists buy in the primary market. They are directly impacting innovation.

      Fund managers (both hedge and long only) merely help capital markets to be liquid. Their money doesn’t directly go to anyone actually creating something.