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The real reason jeets and illegals are here. Either you tolerate the browning of the USA until it becomes South Africa, or American exceptionalism ceases to exist.
This is "line go up" nonsense (your screenshot, not your comment.) The line will go up in the long run. American culture ensures it. The quarterly decline of a company's stock price does not necessarily indicate weakness. It could be general market conditions or a one-off incident that caused a panic sell (for example, in the 1980s Johnson & Johnson had an unknown person poison some of their medicine, leading to a major price decline. J&J bumped up security and pioneered tamper-proof packaging, and the company would go on to become one of the best investments of the '90s.)
Hell, a decline in the market is a good thing. During the 1990s dot com boom, a lot of scumbags were starting companies that were no more than get-rich-quick schemes; when the market crashed, most of these "companies" crashed with it. The ones that survived would either quickly regain their financial senses and recover, or slowly collapse (Microstrategy is a good example; they started as a software analytics company, crashed in the '90s when CEO Michael Saylor was convicted of fraud by the SEC, and languished in obscurity until Saylor began taking out huge loans to buy bitcoin. Only time will tell what will happen.)
Speaking of loans, that is exactly why people insist Line Must Go Up. The uber-rich take out huge loans, using the millions of shares they own as collateral, and use the loans to buy things. No selling shares means no capital gains taxes. To pay off these loans, they take out even larger loans, again using their shares as collateral. This creates a doom loop where they force the line to go up, because if it ever goes down, they can't use their shares as collateral and will have to pay off their loans.
tldr: the ultra-rich as sacrificing your nation and your future because they want another luxury yacht.
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even worse. You see, most CEOs aren't paid a salary or a paycheck like you and I; they get compensated in stock options. Options, simply put, are contracts that allow you to purchase a set number of shares at a given price, regardless of what the actual price is. For example: if you have an option for purchase 100 shares of KiwiCorp at $10/share and choose to exercise it, you'll be able to buy 100 shares at $10 even though the share price is actually $15.
CEOs get compensated in options, drive the price up, and take out loans so they can exercise these options. This gives them an enormous boost in wealth, letting them take out even more loans, and on top of all that they don't have to pay income tax. Do not invest in a company that compensates its executives primarily in options.
