Can we just admit that stocks are betting/a zero sum game

Can we just admit that stocks are betting/a zero sum game.

>but muh growth
Wow more people enter the bubble every year, must mean stock has intrinsic worth.

>but you get things when the company defualts
You get jack shit

>but buybacks and defaults make it imperfect and not 50/50
Main point stands

>but by that definition usd is also a bubble
Yup. 5k years from now when everybody is in their spaceships with infinite food, water, fucking and internet, usd wont even be used as toilet paper

>but then why is the stock market exceptionally worse
Because all the reasons it used to be a better alternative to cash transactions are gone. Its now taxed out of the ass, up to 60% (income + capital gains) and only worth trading with exploitation and workarounds

They have a heavy gambling component, but at the same time it isn't like a casino where the odds are deliberately rigged against you.

>stocks are zero sum

So who loses the exact same amount of money you gain or visa versa.

Zero sum means one person loses for another person's gain

This cannot happen when the stock market requires one person to willingly sell/buy and another person to willingly buy/sell

Whoever buys my stock loses money until they sell their stock to some other dumbass.

What about dividends.

I don't think anyone with a basic understanding of market mechanics would disagree with you, OP.

hopefully not every1 knows advanced economics, thus making my stocks go up :D

lol
www.investopedia.com

go learn about what a stock is. It's legally an asset just like cash

Can we just admit that bonds are a 0 sum game.