this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
1133 points (99.0% liked)
Microblog Memes
10305 readers
2364 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If that's true they won't make anything on the upswing.
See, this is the fiction that makes everyone panic. For most of the "wealthy", the majority of their wealth is actually held in stocks/bonds/other market devices, etc...
Even with the relatively small amount that they use to live (compared to their overall "wealth"), they still live very comfortably. Millions per year of the hundreds of millions or billions that make up their "wealth".
The wealth numbers are often just whatever their current holdings are worth of they sold everything right now.
The value that the "wealthy" get from their holdings isn't in the capital cost, it's primarily from the year over year dividends/interest that they get from holding it. The market value of the stock or whatever is basically meaningless, as long as they get their pay out at the end of the year, they couldn't care less what the holdings are worth today.
However, with all of that said, they do care because a large part of that figure is how confident the market is that the organization behind that holding will be able to deliver their dividends.... If confidence is shaken by some organizational change, eg, new CEO takes charge or something, then the confidence that the market has in the organization to deliver goes down, and so does the market cost of those assets.
The fact that they will be paid their dividends is the part that they care about.... Nothing else matters. The book value of all their assets will basically never be realized, as long as those companies are delivering what they want, dividends.