You might surprise yourself. The familiarity with a subject and its lingo can do wonders for complete understanding. A deliberate and focused study session on your subject will put a lot of pieces together. Sometimes all you need to know is what questions to ask.
This line of thinking is quite confusing to me. The amount of neglected children lucky enough to participate, unsupervised, in an experiment like this is certainly dramatically less than the amount you could save by hiring more social workers. With respect to supervision, why is responsibility being shifted away from parents? Blaming a YouTube video for your child's chronic exposure to X-rays is a poor excuse for not paying attention to you kid. Not to mention, the proliferation of this type of video would automatically expose the inherent danger as the safety-adverse content providers reveal the consequences.
In theory, redemption would be distributed over time vs. the abruptness of our current situation. And, as you mentioned, there will be other forms of payment. I would expect most people would by the gift card for less than what they expect to spend.
Currently, on my 2nd read of the book and I interpret this as a struggle to find purpose. Recognizing who asked is like asking yourself "Who am I?" which leads to purpose and with purpose comes endurance. This may be superficial as I gain more insight the more I read it.
Here’s another way to look at the staggering amount of money Jeff Bezos has made so far in 2018. Amazon has an estimated total 566,000 employees worldwide. If the company CEO decided to pass along his $40 billion in increased net worth in 2018 to his workers, each of them would get about $70,000—which is more than twice the median Amazon employee’s salary.
These statements are always ridiculous to me. There is no way he could convert $40B to cash and everything else stay the same.
I have invested in the stock market for about 1 year. Initially, I used options to leverage what little money I had and blew up my account. I learned three important lessons, of which I had read more than once prior to, but they are as follows:
1. Do not try to predict the market. Follow it. To be more specific, and less "duh", invest in securities that show (from a speculative standpoint) the potential to continue to move in a direction, but with "smart" money behind it. This brings me to 2.
2. It takes money to make money. This is not to say that it is impossible to turn $1,000 into $1M, just a lot less probable. When you are following the "smart" money, you are playing the game and the game is based on probability. The more money you have to invest, the more potential candidates you can hold. By cutting losses short and riding out the winners, you can make a considerable amount of money. Discipline and money management are the key here. Being right or wrong is not the way to look at investing; I tend to say, "I held the stocks that made me a profit, and sold the ones that didn't."
3. You will lose money, you will be in the wrong security and the worst time, and you will 2nd guess a great investment. It will happen over and over. You have to be mentally prepared to look past this. You have to be objective and you have to discipline your mind to treat loses as a necessary part of the game.
Well, to actually answer the question, I am invested in BAC, PFE, GE, and VZ. All of which are for testing purposes for a new strategy that makes us of technical analysis over a long(er) term.
I realize my knowledge is minimal, but I hope it helps.