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• Stock markets today are losing the reason why they
            were created. There are numerous newly opened,

            aggressively marketed companies that attract people to
            buy shares from them. Having collected their money,

            these companies go bankrupt and people lose their

            money/undervalued stocks.

            Stock markets have been founded in order to engage the

            capital in the production process and create new value.
            People today lose confidence in the system itself, because

            it is vague. Stock markets are viewed as a form of
            gambling organizations. There are people who have lost

            their long-time savings by buying stocks they expect to
            bring them quick profit, having being cheated or mislead

            by the brokers.

            The world today has no mechanisms to protect past labour

            invested by people so that it can retain its true value. In

            the first phase, the invested labour is expressed in money.
            If stored, money loses its value. There are various

            financial options, such as banking investments, buying
            stocks and real estates, various investment and insurance

            funds, that allow people to protect their past labour from




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