Timcast: Youtube Gets Woke Goes Broke Loses 70 BILLION DOLLARS!!!

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Ka-pi96 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Yes it is loosing money - but only for the shareholders, and only those why invested into Alphabet when the stock was above the current point! Alphabet didn't lose one cent with this. Hence why it is false, and deliberately so from the one who made that Video to push his agenda.

And yes, you are defending the source and the video, I just don't think that you realize that.

*losing

But technically not even then. They only lose money if they actually sell their stocks. For example if you were to buy a house for $250k and then a year later it drops to $150k, have you lost $100k? Nope. You still have the house and the exact same amount of money as you had before. If you sell the house then you'd have lost $100k, but if you don't then you haven't actually lost any money, yet.

If you invest (many things) in an election campaign, and lose, do we say they lost? Based on some people's reasoning here, they didn't lose, because they also gained many things (like experience) and can continue to campaign and officially run again in 4 years. That's not the point though. The point is they wanted something starting now and what potentially came with that over the next 4 years or more. If you continue to lose elections due to poor campaigns or strong competition, your odds of receiving more votes and winning down the road won't be as likely.

The reason to purchase stocks is to make money. That's the goal. You also want to be able to sell at any time and make as much of a profit as possible. If the stock price falls a lot, or is constantly fluctuating, for whatever reason, that's not good for the company or it's stockholders. It typically means there's 'problems' within the company, or strong market factors, like competition, which usually leads to less buyers with a falling stock price, due to future uncertainty.

Politicians do lose elections, and stocks do lose value, since time most certainly matters and has a price. People don't have unlimited time and resources.