This is a video entitled "E-Trade Baby Loses Everything," posted to the youtube profile politicalremix. The video, created for a humor and parody site called College Humor, borrows from a series of commercials by the company E*Trade, that depicts a baby using their services for buying and selling stocks and the like. One can say that the advertisements attempt to garner customers by making the act of buying and selling assets seem less complicated, but they also serve to make such activities seem less risky or dangerous. The parody here plays with that attempt by taking the original elements of the ad and reintroducing some more realistic concepts, such as the inherent risk of stock trading. Not only does this undermine the implication of safety, but it highlights the absurdity of trying to gain customers through such means by demonstrating why it's bad to get someone who is clearly ill-prepared for such activities (with the baby as the perfect stand-in) into trading. Also, this video is hilarious. Just saying.
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