• jarfil@beehaw.org
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    14 hours ago

    A company that can’t offer a ROI to its stockholders, is a startup that should never be allowed to go public; stick to angel and venture investors instead. Public stocks relying on the hype of “growing quickly”, are a Ponzi scheme through and through.

    If we speak of company ages, the argument doesn’t hold either:

    • AAPL - 49yr - 0.48%
    • MSFT - 50yr - 0.88%
    • NVDA - 32yr - 0.04%
    • AMZN - 31yr - 0.00%
    • GOOG - 27yr - 0.49%
    • TSLA - 22yr - 0.00%
    • SpaceX - 23yr - not traded

    A good chunk of the US market is made up of Ponzi scheme companies. With 401k-s tied to market investments, people are setting themselves up for a very rough awakening.