Capitalists, no offense, but your entire stock market with its prices and quotations is a deception and illusion, working on your desire and the desire of “investors” to get rich quickly and unjustly solely on speculation. Without producing anything, without creating useful products and real, tangible added value.
I put the word “investors” in quotation marks because most of them are future victims and losers who have money and want to get rich quickly.
The stock market created by you is a huge bubble inflated by the air of wild desires for quick profit, the figures of which have nothing to do with real assets and the product produced.
The recent days are a vivid confirmation of this. Can real wealth of tens of trillions of dollars disappear without a trace in a few days? A few hours, or even minutes – and they are gone; the stock price of the largest companies has collapsed; they have lost half of themselves. Wow! What a trick! Is it that half of the production assets of notional Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Wollmart, Mikrosoft, Google disappeared? Half of the iPhone factories, trading floors and warehouses, software and intellectual property products, finished products and goods in warehouses disappeared or self-liquidated?
Of course not, all the productive assets of these and other companies are in place, operating as they have been. They just aren’t worth what the stock markets say they are. And they can’t be. Their billion and trillion dollar values are fiction. It doesn’t happen that the real value of an object first fell by half in a few days, then recovered in a few hours. It is a fiction, a manipulation. Only a balloon can be inflated and deflated so quickly and you can see its transformation before your eyes.
Let us remember: at one time, the shares of an enterprise reflected the real value of its assets and its capabilities: machines, buildings, equipment, goods and so on. Acquisition of shares gave an opportunity to become the owner of a business or a part of it and hope to receive a part of the profit (depending on the share in it).
But later the stock market, under the pressure of the irrepressible desires of capital to get a quick profit (quick and huge money exclusively by speculation), began to live its own life. Stock quotations on this market, inflated many times, in most cases no longer correspond to the real value of enterprises/businesses. When the nominal par value of a share was 10 dollars, it began to sell for 100, 200 dollars and even more! Do you believe that those who bought it will receive dividends in proportion to how much they overpaid on the stock exchange? I don’t. At best, their dividends, like shares, will be calculated on the par value of the stock.
Or do you believe that Apple or Amazon really own trillions of dollars worth of goods and manufacturing assets? And then all of a sudden they don’t. And then, once again, they do.
No, of course, it is only a stock exchange quotation, a wish. All these wild jumps that we have all seen recently, multi-billion or even trillion dollar values of companies on the stock market, their collapse and sharp recovery, all this super value is a balloon inflated by the desire for quick profit. The movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” became a documentary.
I understand, it’s human nature to want to be rich, and even more so to become so without doing much of anything. Well, all the profits will be made by the organizers of the stock markets, while the “investors”, in the vast majority, will become losers and ruined.
But the most worrying thing is that such “inflated”, essentially fictitious, fake, not real hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars will try to exchange them for real assets. What gives people life, work, and meaning? What embodies peoples and countries? Minerals, water, land, and other real national wealth. They are already trying to seize them, changing their “empty” trillions with the help of corrupt local governments into real, priceless wealth for people and states.
Examples of this are Ukraine, African countries, but the same USA too, where 1 percent owns half of the country’s national wealth.