THE PREVIOUS post had a little video about pyramid schemes, but this one is better for those who are not familiar with imaginary assets, much like software/BM patents and bad mortgages, even 401(k).
Apologies for steering a little off topic. A detailed analysis worth reading, especially to those who have not read it yet, seems almost prophetic these days. It related to topics that we cover.
This situation is not about stock valuation, product quality or whether or not Microsoft has monopoly power in its markets. Nor is it part of a pro or anti-Microsoft movement. This situation is instead a shining example of financial fraud and corruption enabled by bad government policy. If not quickly and aggressively addressed, we will all be losers as credibility in our financial markets is destroyed.
The more things change, the more they may stay the same. ⬆
There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - people generally gravitate towards what they know or feel to be crude truth, not just what's comforting (albeit false or self-deluding, usually groupthink dictated from above)
Democracy depends on free press and freedom of the press depends on being able to safely publish (and keep available) material that bad people don't want to be known to anybody
The Web is really getting bad; it's also overwhelmed by fake material or plagiarised material, wherein the plagiarism gets disguised/hidden by LLM sausage factories
