Spyke

This is quite common on the wall street. Companies are in the business of selling stock, not making money on the free market.

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qwed113reply
lemmy.world

I’m pretty sure the leadership just wants to cash out ASAP.

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Honestly I think he's gonna sell Reddit as soon as he can get a decent enough offer. It's a sinking ship already.

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WraithGearreply
lemmy.world

A hammer doesn’t turn a profit either. Its a tool used for a purpose.

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thantikreply
lemmy.world

Yes it does. Hammers are like $0.20 to make, and sell for like $6. And they don't cost millions to keep working either. This isn't the example you think it is, hahaha.

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lemmy.world

Plus even if you just look at it as a tool, it does turn a profit, via being a tool. That's why a business gets a few, despite them originally costing them money. There's expected value in the hammer. It exists, physically, and it has turned a profit plenty before.

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WraithGearreply
lemmy.world

My intention is that the value of the thing is what it can be used for. Its a tool that can be used to spread propaganda, and control the narrative. For the owner it’s a means to an end. Guess i should have clarified.

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That works for privately owned companies-- the current example is Twitter, which is useful for pushing propaganda.

It doesn't work for publicly owned companies, because public investors are only interested in profitting

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I was intending to use it as a metaphor. Meteors usually are not the exact thing they describe. Its goal doesn’t have to be a thing that turns a profit, when it can be used as a tool in other ways. I didn’t do a good enough explanation of my meaning

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WraithGearreply
lemmy.world

I get the other responses as i wasn’t very clear on my meaning, but this confuses me.

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Ah was joke reference to the Mad Money tv show stock investor guy, who notoriously has a following of people who invest the opposite of what he recommends

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lemmy.today

Feel bad for the people who buy it lol, excluding the day traders planning to inflate it before riding it into the ground.

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hauireply
lemmy.giftedmc.com

Remember the wolf of wall street when pump and dump schemes could get you jailed? Jordan Belfort looks like the honest guy in today‘s economy.

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Pffft, I love how "market" news never have to deal with reality checks. Guess I'll make a shovelware company, make 2 shit games and announce an IPO, "Totally expecting at least 1 billion valuation, it's totally worth it, you guys"

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You reached the end