• алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      and I’m just supposed to give a fuck?

      you have to do zero real work to get profits that way. The profits you are getting are just a share of the wealth the workers of the company produce. There is no such thing as passive income, the money is always taken from working people. The really rich people take 0 risk. The instant they start making serious losses banks and goverments step in and give them taxpayers money.

      Also: to get relevant income that way you already need to have a lot of money, which you either get by inheritance or exploiting others. Either way you had to do zero real work yourself. (and no, just shoving capital around is not real work)

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      1 year ago

      Investments are bound to risk. And taking a risk must be rewarded.

      Err, no. Risk taking could be rewarding, but it inherently should not be guaranteed to be.

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      1 year ago

      I believe that’s how it works, but I just don’t understand how that makes any sense. They’re just playing with numbers in the air, making a line diagraph go up and down… I just don’t get it.

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        1 year ago

        The “line diagraph” represents real physical things that you can eat or sleep in or wear.

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          So they make the worth of that different? People give money so the worth of those things change? Who decides what worth is? What am I missing?