How Reddit Found the Center of Capitalism

The GameStop stock play finds accountability in a system that has none

Colin Horgan
GEN
Published in
4 min readJan 28, 2021

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For the past few days GameStop, the beleaguered retailer that’s seen its share price skyrocket under the influence of a Reddit mob attempting the mother of all short squeezes, has dominated the text group I have with a handful of high school friends. Not usually a crew for…

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