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If you buy 100 as shares of a new corporation, for $1 each, and then sell them for $100 each, where did that $9,900 of profit come from?

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Value created from nothing

Given by the rich

Stolen from the poor

Inflation or monetary policy

Somewhere else

150 votes

Anonymous 1d

It came from other people buying the stock at a higher price. So it’s stolen from someone richer than you. No real value was added because stock $ is rarely used as capital investments. It’s not given by the rich, and it causes inflation in part but it’s not the same thing

Anonymous 1d

Value doesn’t come from nowhere. You don’t put a price tag on the stock; its value is determined by what other investors believe it’s worth. That valuation comes from a variety of measures. I can assure you it’s not from “nothing.” Now, can those measure be totally bogus? Absolutely and often are. All you have to look at the way the market swings every time Trump says something in the press.

Anonymous 1d

It came from the people buying the stock. when you start using stock swaps as payment, THATS value created from nothing

Anonymous

#3 1d

It didn’t come from nothing. They didn’t arbitrarily choose to buy the stock. If you mean something tangible that you can see or touch, then I guess. That’s a very childish concept of value though.

Anonymous

#1 1d

I need you to reread what I said