A MODEST PROPOSAL TO PK TRADERS... Truth is, those of us who dare to invest in terms of the company's value, product, market (what a novel idea!)... where the real and potential value has been evidenced (short of release of fins- duly noted), are fighting an entrenched culture of greed in a market that operates in shadows... where the predominant players are folks who see a company as something incidental to a game of immediate and quick financial gain... at the expense of anyone and everyone. Let's face it, we all buy the proposition that stocks offer the potential of financial gain (pun intended), but let's acknowledge there's something kind of ugly in a humanity that is exclusively in it to scavange, without regard to the values that underly a company... where individual gain is at the expense of the corporate. This is a culture of systemic destruction; applied on a grander scale, this would deprive even the individual investor of means for gain... as very few companies could survive without a shift in thinking up the line.
So there are a number of us who dare to invest in a company based upon the purposes of the system-- a shared understanding that good ideas ought to be rewarded, invested in, given an opportunity to thrive... resulting in jobs, broad-based economic prosperity, etc.
So we have two ethics, two visions, two types of people... in whom a different (dare I say greater) type of value or worth is revealed. And I ask the question: In the grand scheme of things, where our decisions disclose us as one type or the other - who are the real winners, and who are the real losers?
So the rest of you understand, some of us would rather be revealed as fools in one way so not to be regarded as such in the more ultimate way. It leaves us open to being "taken" for sure, but it's a small price to pay for us doing the same to you.
Invest together. Consider the possibilities.
