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Comment by mr_toad

2 months ago

> If the company consents

The company ultimately being the shareholders. Hard to imagine a scenario where allowing an employee to trade on insider information would benefit the shareholders.

Any dollar you get paid as salary is a dollar less for the shareholders. Yet, paying people dollars is still a common practice.

Paying people in secrets isn't different in principle, only in degree.

However I agree that the scenarios where this would be useful to shareholders would be a bit weird, but it's just a Gedankenexperiment where we assume that for some reason the shareholders already think this is a good idea.