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In a country where wealth inequality is already out of control, allowing the rich who are in power to become richer (because money buys your way into politics, even without being elected themselves) seems like a really bad idea. This opens the door to inside trading worse that what we already know happens in congress. And just like what we've seen in congress (the people in charge of making rules about if congress can trade stocks obviously wouldn't make a rule banning them from trading stocks, despite all of them somehow being incredibly profitable stock traders WHILE "serving" their constituents) trusting these companies to be in charge of regulating themselves WILL NOT WORK. Futures trading needs to be banned, if not, HEAVILY regulated - because at the end of the day THIS. IS. GAMBLING.