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

[EricHiggin]

Ka-pi96 said:

EricHiggin said:

The stocks could potentially be worth something, maybe, if a bunch of other things fall into place, which wasn't planned for or anticipated by anyone when the stock was purchased, or they wouldn't bother purchasing in the first place. Your starting to get into what if territory, and there's a million different what if's that can be used for or against you, so that's not really a path I think is worthy of going down. Chance is just that, chance. Nothing is certain, over time.

If you buy stock you 'lose' money. It doesn't matter if you gain anything down the road, because that money that's invested in the stock, can't be used for any other purpose during it's investment. It's just sitting there in the aether being useless until you potentially get what you want out of of it, profit. If you win the election, you get what you wanted out of the 'investment'. If you win or lose the election, you can go on to write books or give speeches, or still hold a political position, making yourself millions upon millions down the road.

I'm starting to get into what if territory? Jog on, you're the one that got into "what if alphabet goes bankrupt", you don't get much bigger or less likely what ifs than that.

You're not really losing money if you buy stocks. You're exchanging money for something else. It's no different to buying a house or land, you don't lose money because you're getting something for your money. Something that's worth money and that you can sell at a later date if you so choose. Now when you sell it, that's when you gain or lose money.

Less likely? Well since GM or the entire 2008 crash aren't enough, what about if DJT ever becomes President?...

Your exchanging money for thin air. For aether. Your getting the chance to potentially make more money. Your goal may be to make more money but your not using your money to buy more money, your basically gambling, just like if you run a campaign. You have no idea if your going to accomplish your goal or not.

You also have to take into account how much you want to make, and how long your willing to wait. Say you want or need to triple your money, and that takes 10 years. Well someone who campaigns for a couple years and loses, can then get hired by some mega corp to use their political connections to get Government contracts or whatever they're after, while being paid millions upon millions of dollars over the next 8 years.

The entire thing is an "if" game from the very mention of purchasing stocks if you want to look at it that way. There is no guarantee whatsoever in any way.