Financial System Criticism

The cluster focuses on critiques of the traditional financial system's flaws, including its frequent crises, disconnection from real-world value, over-financialization, and calls for disruption or replacement.

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Keywords

c.f FSOC FED US CISPA LOT IMO PE SEC OK financial finance money economy industry greed mortgage global services sector

Sample Comments

jxjnskkzxxhx Mar 7, 2025 View on HN

What's wrong with the existing financial system?

TheOtherHobbes Mar 25, 2023 View on HN

Is this why the US financial system blows up so regularly?

anigbrowl Sep 9, 2022 View on HN

Wait, financialization isn't the solution to every problem? Shocker

prewett Sep 5, 2019 View on HN

Why are you losing faith in the normal financial system?

api Oct 20, 2018 View on HN

It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it completely breaks all of modern finance.

kibwen Feb 26, 2024 View on HN

The financialization of everything is why we can't have nice things.

koheripbal Jul 31, 2022 View on HN

I assume this is a joke. If not, you should take some time to understand the financial system.

sgt101 Mar 13, 2025 View on HN

Also, I think it's existence might disrupt the financial system shomeewhat!

smolder Aug 2, 2019 View on HN

No one's confused why it's happening. It's legal to make money through financial services, and it reliably makes money. The investments into fintech that divert more cash one way or another until others catch up also provide very little and ever diminishing value, mostly just sideways and upward redistribution of wealth. The actual value generating sectors of the economy are always getting more anemic, and they're due for collapse because of how much everything depends on oil

kaliali May 8, 2021 View on HN

Why would I invest in a failing financial system? Fuck it let the system that survives on a growing debt population burn down