The value of a stock comes from having voting power over the direction of a company and a claim over its profits, but it seems like most investors never get to vote or claim any dividends and they only buy stocks because they speculate about their future price, and nobody cares about actually voting or having dividends. Just about the price based on the company's reputation.
You can never use the stocks to do anything other than selling them, so it could be argued that they don't have any intrinsic value, couldn't it?
This is specially hypocritical from traditional investors when they say Bitcoin for example doesn't have any intrinsic value. When you at least can use Bitcoin to pay a fee to store data on a decentralized database forever or tranfer value without intermediaries.
What do you think? Can you do something with stocks other than selling them? (with permission of the regulators, exchanges, and brokers, and only during trading days/hours).
Submitted October 01, 2020 at 07:59PM by alive_consequence https://ift.tt/34f5Rst
