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product.

Financial products. Sheets of paper, derivatives, numbers, servers, computers, shares of a company, physically nothing, virtually nothing. Yet one is paid to "create" it. And one is told to trade it. Other words; one is paid to "create" it in a brokerage system of a certain brokerage firm so clients can "trade" it within the brokerage system. So another one makes a commission out of it. There are those who follow up on services, further sales, paper work, authorizing loans, update prices; basically an entire service industry. One knows one holds "how many products." And the products have got the power. They can make you cry, they can make you rich. But. The ontological nature of the so-called products. Nothing physical. When a carpenter creates a table at least someone can eat on it. Luxury products are created so vanity desires can be fulfilled, or so certain people can pretend to have class. Some sort of functional purpose is attac...