As well as the military contractors, insurance companies, big food, big media, big think tanks and consultancy, etc

Oil has been kinda shit though because of really low oil prices for a long time, evilness not withstanding.

freedom companies?

Capital-class behavior. Nearly as bad as rent-seeking.

Or usury

Completely fine by me. They need money for their endeavour, I give them money and expect something in return. I see nothing inherently wrong or unfair with that.

The overall goals of mind-controlling a computer and not aging are quite ok.

They just can't do anything good because of who they are. If those people set out to cure cancer, they will do that through a subscription service that require complete subservience.

I wish they would invest in making safe delicious slushies out of (the sad goo that is left of) the past billionaires who froze themselves hoping for immortality. That's a product that could take off.

I think you're right that stock trading has enabled a lot of bad and perhaps shouldn't have been allowed. At least on a large scale beyond a single town or county. Paper certificates for money may have been a bad idea too. Even the use of a common currency like gold may have been a net negative. I think a barter system has positives over a common currency in that it requires people to work together and form communities.

Investment as a form of collaboration and results distribution is probably fine. Tho, I would not be opposed to limits on size/scale for companies, individual wealth, pay ratios, etc.

Shorts, options, and other "exotic financial instruments" are worse than gambling because they compel corrupting (withering) behavior.

I think an active, forceful SEC based by a similarly aggressive DOJ, both focused on benefit-to-working-class primarily and market-health (e.g. lack of rent seeking, monopolistic, or monosoponistic behavior) secondarily, would lead toward a better (for global society) market. I think that could be true even if we continued to allow fairly arbitrary contracts that are those "exotic financial instruments", options, and shorts.

Mutual Funds: We sell Bliss*

*manufactured from the finest ignorance

Kinda how I see it, I just look at the numbers to make sure I can retire at some point and that's it. Until a better system is available, I just have to play within the system that exists or I ruin my future while making no meaningful dent in these companies' futures

It will be used to separate the wealthy from the poor even further. The wealthy people will afford it and make their families healthier and better looking.

I support the idea of eliminating genetic disabilities via gene editing, but the second you add in the option of picking eye or hair color, height, or skin color, you're going down a path of eugenics that only works to put down those unable to pay for it.

I think the knock-on effect of making some innate, human characteristics undesirable is probably a net bad. That's very close to labeling persons with those characteristics as sub-human--specifically due fewer "human" rights.

That said, if I were choosing between gametes or embryos and had genetic information on them available, I do not think it is a moral stance to ignore/discard that information when making the choice. We should be careful to understand our genetic knowledge is still quite limited and, even if our knowledge was perfect, (most) genotypes are not destiny.

Crispr gene editing doesn't work like a Santa Claus wishlist, dunce.