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A good proportion of these people have the majority of their multi-million dollar wealth tied up in a single on of the FAAMG megacorps, or in a stock portfolio
by MagnumOpus 3y ago
A good proportion of these people have the majority of their multi-million dollar wealth tied up in a single on of the FAAMG megacorps, or in a stock portfolio heavily invested in them.
As they say, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it". Even the ones that are not outright shills and cheerleaders often exhibit motivated reasoning...
- adastra22 3y agoI don’t own any Apple stock. Nor is my finances in any way dependent on Apple or other big tech. I don’t even work in software. I just think my life is genuinely improved by having access to Apple products, and find the blond hate and uncompromising takes in this thread to be just as baffling.
- matwood 3y agoI do own some Apple stock, but agree. Maybe I'm old school, but if I don't like a companies product I just don't buy it. This isn't a situation where anyone has to buy Apple products. ~65% of the EU has done just that. The whole blind hate is very weird to me.