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I'm surprised because it never ends well for the company in the long term, and they should know this.


"Did it ever work for these people?"

"No. It never does. I mean these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might. But......it might work for us."


Won't investors just sell stock when it's high and then move their money onto the next platform?


For every seller there's a buyer, so there will always be investors parking money into the platform.


The new buyers are the same folks that buy stock in Yahoo.


Looking too closely at that abyss leads to some disturbing implications, for people who like to sit on their ass and collect dividends while other people work.


It doesn’t? Facebook is worth a gazillion dollars and YouTube seems to be doing alright.


It worked for Meta.




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