On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff's posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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Professor stock market assignment:
You must do 4 trades every week.
You must do 60 trades total
You are not allowed to do more than 100 trades.
If you don't make enough money you fail the assignment.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT. Not only are we gimped in our ability to do trade, but also forced to make trades we don't need, and then our fucking grade is determined on the socio-economic factors beyond our fucking control. I can't wait for a recession to hit and then everyone fucking fails regardless. I have literally never left a review on RateMyProfessor before but this guy is getting one.
Edit: It's on a stock simulator. We aren't actually betting real money.
We are LITERALLY required to out compete people who make this shit their job. I have never gotten below an A in any non-math course but I am so tempted to just take the C.
Sounds like a good way to prove that passive investment is always better than active... The fees will eat up any gains you could possibly make.
Avoiding fees racking up by using unneeded trades for one share each would probably make sense here.
Is he giving you the money to invest? This sounds incredibly fucked up.
It's a stock simulator so we don't actually lose money. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough about that.
Cool makes sense lol.
Can't you fake it
That's what I'd do, anyway. Is less effort than actual stock investment, too. Depends on what you need to do, but e.g. inspect elementing an investing account & using Photoshop on a bank statement (to prove withdrawal or w/e) would do the job
This is hilariously fucked up, just gambling for a grade lmao