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A Boring Dystopia
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At some point those numbers mean nothing anymore. What then? Maybe we are already there.
we are
Of course it means nothing to us. To them it's like getting high score in the arcade - they all want their name and number at the top and will happily shit on anyone below them.
It absolutely means something. Don't kid yourself.
Stocks value don't represent the actual value of a company, it represents the the value that a buyer believes it is worth.
How is that different from money?