Market crash, yeah forgot to tell you guys

[YDK]

Originally Posted by uh-oh

still sound like malarkey

we should do away with it

like if i start a company, what is the incentive to make it "publicly traded"? is that the right terminology?

but word my thinking is, WHAT IS THE POINT?

thats all i'm trying to figure out. like i see why i would want to buy apple stock in like 1987 or some shit so i could sell it when the iphone dropped or something and make money

but whether i own stocks or not doesn't mean anything right. its not like i own an iphone factory or something

so if i own stocks in the iphone, how does that benefit them? because i bought them? so basically its a way for people to buy nothingness from companies

i dunno

Next time you have some extra money an time, look into buying some stocks. Like go look for stocks that only costs a few cents or even few dollars an buy a bunch of different ones. If any of them hit it big like that Greek yogurt shit you could be rollin in money over night. Good investors look at the small companies as to which ones have the best chance of developing worth, and those are the ones they'll buy a few hundred shares of. You may only spend 200 bucks but if those shares go from .50 cents to 2 bucks you just quadrupled your money for every share you have.
Now the bigger companies like p&g fluctuated a few dollars but if they steadily show an increase over time then your making a profit.
Privately owned businesses and publicly traded businesses have different advantages so it just depends what works best for each one.
If im making 200k a year running my own business but have the potential for 2mill if i sell it to a big corperation that has morr factories to build and distribute my product and they want my to sell to then to be publicly traded hell yeah you gotta good chance of making big money. But if they sell you out to foreign factories you just laid off a lot of your employees in the us. If you had remained private you can make those decisions yourself.

Theres a shit ton different scenarios an reasons to do one or the other it just depends. But either way you company will be estimated at a net worth and the price of your stocks will be determined by that