This is basically what happens with company 401ks. In the reality most of us inhabit, a 401k is a type of company-sponsored retirement account. The accounts a

This is basically what happens with company 401ks. In the reality most of us inhabit, a 401k is a type of company-sponsored retirement account. The accounts are allowed to invest in a variety of securities, most commonly in one of a limited selection of mutual funds. There is no circumstance under which 401k contributions materially move the market. If I sound mildly put out in this comment, it is because HN comments about the stock market often make very confident claims which bear only the most tenuous connection to reality. It's as if someone on a Wall Street message board had asked "Why is Chrome faster than Internet Explorer?" and received the answer "Because it is written in Unicode." And outside the scope of this particular comment, often times responses like "Chrome is not, in fact, written in Unicode. Unicode is an imprecise name for part of a family of methods of encoding text in various human languages, not a programming language. A substantial part of Chrome, including most of the rendering engine, UI layer, and network stack is written in C++; Chrome also makes heavy use of other languages internally. Returning to the question of why Chrome is fast: this is less about language choice and more because substantial effort has been taken to ensure that Chrome is fast. 'Fast' is a complicated topic in browsers. In terms of user-visible performance, one thing which makes browsers seem fast is the Javascript runtime. Chrome uses V-8, a run-time built specifically for Chrome at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is optimized for speed." are met with "Sure that's what you would say IF YOU WERE A GOOGLE SHILL."