Lol. Good question. Flooding the market with more shares would probably pop the balloon because it would make a lot of shares available to shorts trying to close their positions which I think is part of the issue not being able to find shares to buy to close the short positions.Dumb question - would GME the company itself be able to issue stock to take advantage of this runup? Hoe long does that usually take?
I am sure it's unrealistic but sorta fun to think they could take advantage and actually strengthen the company's position for real
Thx
-QG
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QuizGuy66
Footballguy
Right - but curious if there was a sorta tactical amount that they could infuse w/o upsetting the apple cart too much.
-QG
Chaz McNulty
Footballguy
I thought I would try to get on this ride with AMC this morning for 50 shares. They keep halting trading though.
2Squirrels1Nut
Footballguy
Chaz McNulty
Footballguy
KGB
Footballguy
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
Nigel
Footballguy
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
One account down 3.3%, the other up a little
Charlie Harper
Footballguy
This is my thinking too. Looks like quality stocks will be discounted. Most everything is red.
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
Yup, seems like the "hot" and speculative stuff taking a hit today, maybe RHers selling to pile into GME, AMC, etc.
Nigel
Footballguy
The Z Machine
Footballguy
But it gets me back to my other question: What is the purpose to society / economy of hedge funds shorting the crap out of stocks? Just to move a company to bankruptcy faster than it typically would?
Tons of reasons, but it's called a market for a reason. There are buyers and there are sellers. Short sellers would argue that they offer liquidity to these markets. You don't have to drive a company to bankruptcy to make money as a short seller. If you see a company that you think is vastly overvalued, well, you make a sale instead of a buy. If you see a company that is undervalued, you buy instead of sell
Pretty simple really. 
McBokonon
Footballguy
Charlie Harper
Footballguy
Nigel
Footballguy
culdeus
Footballguy
Companies are not correlated to value you can't short a stock to bankruptcy. A hostile takeover is better accomplished fee wise just buying 51% of a company through stock purchase at a premium than the premiums associated with shorting 100% of the float.
The flipside of this are those that point out that tesla is valued at about 600k per car delivered so far. Valuations and short carry interest is more complex.
Shorts exist as a gamble, and should in part provide a ballast and stability to the market as a whole. Leveraged options are far more dangerous, tbh. You can move a lot more money around without money you even have on hand.
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
CYDY up 7% 
The Z Machine
Footballguy
Liquidity is overrated if all it does is exacerbate the wealth divide in the country / world.Tons of reasons, but it's called a market for a reason. There are buyers and there are sellers. Short sellers would argue that they offer liquidity to these markets. You don't have to drive a company to bankruptcy to make money as a short seller. If you see a company that you think is vastly overvalued, well, you make a sale instead of a buy. If you see a company that is undervalued, you buy instead of sell
Why not just wait until the price is low enough for the stock to be of value? Why trade negative shares at all?
cosjobs
Footballguy
Capella
Footballguy
I figured Nader giving a timeline on the results would soothe over the people paranoid about not hearing anything.CYDY up 7%
The Z Machine
Footballguy
People want to gamble, fine. Do it in a casino or online book. Don't extract wealth from people that actually work and produce things and labor.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
ABNB has been a superstar for me. I got lucky and timed my purchase at the bottom right after the IPO.
If all there are is buyers, there is going to be little to no downward pressure.
Short sellers are not evil (most of them).
I think you need a better understanding of how efficient markets should work
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-OZ-
Footballguy
The Z Machine
Footballguy
I care less about efficiency and more about adding real value to the world.
It might take a while for the price to come down, but I'm sure it would, eventually.
2Squirrels1Nut
Footballguy
<-----Sold 140 at $16.51 to cover that nut.2Squirrels1Nut said:In for 300 AMC at $7.65.
Have 160 "free" shares to follow.
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Shula-holic
Footballguy
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
What stock?<-----Sold 140 at $16.51 to cover that nut.
Have 160 "free" shares to follow.
2Squirrels1Nut
Footballguy
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
Steeler
Footballguy
JoeSteeler
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BroadwayG
Footballguy
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
It seems your question is less about the economic reasons of a short seller, but rather the ethical reasons and to that I cannot speak.
Without short sellers the market would not nearly be as efficient, imho, and this will add value as it also opens opportunities to bullish investors.
As the old adage goes, bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.
