I believe your statement including real estate, startups, non-dividend stocks in this category is incorrect. They all have the potential to generate cash flow.

I believe your statement including real estate, startups, non-dividend stocks in this category is incorrect. They all have the potential to generate cash flow. Maybe not at the time of investment but at some point in the future. I work in investments and I feel like you could broadly place opportunities into two buckets. One which has current or the potential to produce cash flow. Second which produces no cash flow such as currency, crypto, gold, oil…the price of these assets depend on supply and demand. Oil is different since it is consumed where as crypto isn’t.