• teslasaur
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    4 months ago

    Odds are that you are a stockholder. Do you have a retirement? Or money in a bank?

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      4 months ago

      Usually when people refer to the shareholders, they mean the 1% who own like half of all the wealth in the world.

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      4 months ago

      I mean, I get what people mean when they say that, but it’s ill-informed. This from a year ago:

      The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high

      Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans held just 1% of all stocks in the third quarter of 2023. -source