• bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Which makes me wonder what the point is these days. If the it’s no longer “digital cash”, I don’t see any upside as a functional currency as it’s far too volatile. It’s only value is for speculative investing, which makes it no better than a picture of a cartoon monkey.

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      1 year ago

      It’s just a shitty speculative investment. That’s about it. It’s just reached cult following and hasn’t completely crashed. But when it does someone is going to be left holding a really big bag

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        1 year ago

        The real Michael Burry depicted in the Big Short movie is buying puts against the stock market. Its not just crypto bros that need to ve concerned. All day on Bloomberg today they danced around recession after labor day expectations.

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          The stock market may be in a bubble, but regular stock investments aren’t the same as investing in crypto no matter how much the crypto bros insist it is. Stocks are shares of actual companies that (typically) make things, and they also produce dividends.

          All that said, I think the end of QE “forever” is a thing that the C-levels of big companies are still trying to get over. I think it’s much more difficult to find retail investor interest in a market where benchmark rates exceed inflation, and it looks like the AI hype juice is starting to run out.

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            1 year ago

            A stock represents a share in the ownership of a company.

            It has no inherent requirement that a company ‘make things’ or produce dividends.

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              1 year ago

              Sure you can invest in companies that make nothing, have no actual value, and pay no dividends… In which case you’d be investing in something a lot more like crypto.

              Or you could, you know, not invest in crappy companies nor speculative assets and spend more than five minutes “researching” a thing before sinking significant money into it. Most reputable companies pay dividends and you can even look up the average dividend yield of the stock over years.

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                GOOGL, AMZN, BIIB, EW, META, none pay dividends but are still generally considered sound investments (META’s bullshit forced VR pivot not withstanding).

                My portfolio has grown less from dividend stocks (with automatic reinvestment) than from growth stocks without dividends. Your entire positioning argument itself quickly becomes speculative nonsense the more that time passes.

                Crypto is volatile and most of it is vapor ware, but as a flip side to that same exact coin, most stocks are volatile and the business plans are vaporware crafted from few centuries of practice taking peoples money. It’s all a shell game of belief, don’t get too lost in belief to see real trends and changes as they are happening.

                There’s also considerable strategy differences in terms of making money with investments versus protecting money with investments, and you’d really have to preface an argument with enough context to make it particularly valid over another.

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                  1 year ago

                  My original point (and the one I still insist is true) is that owning shares in a reputable company and “investing” in the latest shit coin aren’t the same thing for a garden variety of different reasons, but the conflationary engine that is your average crypto bro wants to pretend they all are.

                  And that’s leaving it out that one way that the overall stock market differs from crypto greatly is that the government can, has, and likely will continue to take actions to prop it up.