Seems like they’ve panicked. #finance #markets

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  1. The funny thing is that a massive stock devaluation actually has no real effect on the operation of the company. The biggest effect is that the board of directors might be really angry and fire the CEO. But companies don't actually get a dime when their stock goes up or down, not unless it's an IPO. Stock trades represent money moving from one investor to another, not to and from the company itself.

  2. What so sad about the stock market is all of this money that people can potentially make by investing into shares is generated by the workers. Without the workers there would be no profit to give to shareholders and CEOs. It’s not right. And also stocks are not the only way to invest and secure money for the future and protect the value of your money from inflation. Of course with more ethical investing you take a hit on the actual amount you end up gaining but you can still be a multimillionaire with strategic investment strategies and enough surplus to place into those investments. Being a multimillionaire is more than good enough. If you’ve got the money to invest I really would recommend avoiding stocks/shares in companies that aren’t worker owned.

  3. The ironic part of this is their quantum super computers are some of the best and if they just decided to leverage that against the traditional computer companies feeding the data centers they could easily pull ahead but you rarely hear them talking about it. Even if its not commercially viable at this point theyre passing more qubits in their not so powerfull ones to make a whole data center look irrelevant. Virtual laboratories and high level physics and mathematical modeling we've only dreamed of probably arent too far off if they chose their next moves wisely

  4. It's almost as if we're only making one thing now, and that thing is probably going to be the literal end of us, because it's a decision making tool that has no consequences for bad outcomes and neither do its makers. A little girl selling lemonade at the end of her driveway in America faces more restrictive legal issues than the AI industry does. As a species, we're screwed harder than Bonnie Blue at this point.

  5. And this is why business is f**ked. Notional values rather than asset and business values, being used to drive the business into the ground in order to extract profit now, not maintain the business long term.

  6. how? big companies systems shut down the market if it fluctuates with more than like 6-12%.
    it also redo the day if they lost too much money on something like their AI-computations which runs everyone big in stocks buy and sell; take a wrong choice and escalated sells&buying off wrong things etc…

    but its disgusting that big firms can use stocks like they do…

  7. This sort of thing always makes me think of the end of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

    “You have to distinguish between two things – the Swedish economy and the Swedish stock market. The Swedish economy is the sum of all the goods and services that are produced in this country every day. There are telephones from Ericsson, cars from Volvo, chickens from Scan, and shipments from Kiruna to Skovde. That's the Swedish economy, and it's just as strong or weak today as it was a week ago…

    The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with the Swedish economy.”

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