Because you have the option to bet on bombs being dropped, on people dying, events that will have huge impacts on real people's lives.

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And in several cases, there's evidence suggesting that the anonymous people who made these bets may have had insider information.

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Jack Bogle and Vanguard are responsible for a trillion dollars of wealth transfer out of the pockets of Wall Street and the finance industry and into the pockets of individual investors in the form of fees that they didn't have to pay.

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