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Play the tape all the way through. You are proposing that there exists free money to be made by companies willing to invest more in their employees, right? And
by darawk 8y ago
Play the tape all the way through. You are proposing that there exists free money to be made by companies willing to invest more in their employees, right? And you are proposing that most companies are unwilling to pick that money up off the ground because their time horizon is too short. People make multi-decade investments all the time. The idea that business people are out there systematically avoiding any and all long term investments is patently false and completely unsupported by any evidence i'm aware of.
- mlthoughts2018 8y ago> “You are proposing that there exists free money to be made by companies willing to invest more in their employees, right?“ No, I did not suggest that. > “People make multi-decade investments all the time.“ No, that’s a bonkers and ridiculous claim. Some extremely small group of people might make such long-term investments, usually real estate consortiums and mining rights consortiums, but it is an extreme minority of all investment activity, and even more extreme if weighted by dollar value. And even after all that, such investments are still usually made based on net present value calculations with short time horizons, combined with forecasts on the liquidity of the asset (e.g. secondary markets for long-term debt instruments or options or futures for rights-based initiatives). > “The idea that business people are out there systematically avoiding any and all long term investments is patently false and completely unsupported by any evidence i'm aware of.” This seems like a statement about what you’re aware of, and not a statement about long-term investing, which it seems by your own admission, you’re not aware of.