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EricHiggin on 03 May 2019
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SpokenTruth said:
EricHiggin said:

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.

What have I told you guys about bad analogies?

1. This whole thing was about YouTube (Alphabet) losing money.  Which it certainly did not and in fact gained billions in profit.

2. The lose of valuation in stock is only subject to those that sold the stock at a now lower price than what they bout it for.

If you bought $5,000 in Alphabet stock 2 weeks ago, you didn't lost any money this week...unless you sold it.  The fluctuation of stocks prices are relevant only at 2 points during the life of ownership...they day you buy and the day you sell.  Everything in between is largely irrelevant.

You can't logically believe that the only things that matter in life are birth and death and everything in between is largely irrelevant.



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