• NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    The stock market is a weird thing - prices seem to be tied to whether a company can make more this quarter than last quarter, and not tethered to whether a company makes a profit. I figure that they made record revenue and now need a strategy to make even more profit next quarter, which they hope to achieve by reducing expenses via layoffs.

    I don’t like it, but the economy is more tethered to speculation than reality.

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      It’s a pyramid scheme. You participate long enough to be able to move your money to a more stable platform and live off the measly interest that provides.

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      5 hours ago

      it’s not weird. it’s literally how capitalism works. it feels weird because it actually feels fucking wrong and disgusting but we are propagandized into thinking this is ok.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      Line go up dog, just give in and roll around in the slop with the rest of us.

    • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      …/shrug

      Stock prices are tied to what they did last quarter….