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Companies are in general productive goods. An investor may not care about decades of dividends ahead, but they are there. They are paid (in the long term) from
by rich_sasha 6y ago
Companies are in general productive goods. An investor may not care about decades of dividends ahead, but they are there. They are paid (in the long term) from value created, not just a FIFO bubble.
- tarsinge 6y agoBut the stock market is a secondary market, you exchange second hand titles, you are not an investor, so my point is that if people are just here to speculate on the value it’s not very different and the underlying doesn’t really matter.
- lottin 6y agoIf you own stock you are an investor who is invested in a business, in exactly the same way that someone who owns a restaurant or some business is invested in that business. There is no difference between owning a stock and owning a business.