Been thinking a lot lately about how @peterthiel describes finance as indefinitely optimistic while describing the only way to use capital as a means to an end (rather than ends themselves) is in a definitely optimistic manner.
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@RobertCialdini jewelry example holds, purchasing a large amount of a security at an inflated price in markets without many fundamentals should be definitely optimistic in the sense that pushing a penny stock through a resistance under these1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Circumstances should be a reason to believe that others will buy and thus wealth is generated for you personally and companies are given more breathing room to innovate.
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$BTC case we can assume a network effect which leads to a real increase in value when more $$$ is interested and here wealth is generated by increasing the efficacy of Bitcoin.1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread
In general I am wondering if these are exceptions that prove the rule or not. They are in the sense that few people actually view the markets in this explicit manner but not in what really happens.
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