If it was legal, retail might better understand that they're less knowledgable about a stock than the insiders. Instead we have the compromise where retail believes insider trading doesn't happen but it's actually rampant and retail are the least likely to benefit from it.
This site is BLUE.
Mapping that on the stupid US blue vs red scale is downright impossible.
Most people? What?
You're entitled to any perception of reality that you want, but I find it hard to believe that anybody can genuinely perceive ancaps to be the prevailing economic opinion here.
But every discussion I've seen where economics have been brought up, anti-regulation, pro-business, "free market will fix everything", "all the problems come from the regulation and because it's not a true free market" opinions seem to be the majority. Regardless of the topic - be it environmental regulations, monetary policies, the amount of work required to open a restaurant, EU regulatory work against Bit Tech or other oligopolies, etc.