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Trying to understand.
At the meeting - when interviewed by the press - Zuck mentioned 600b.
Then - after that questionnaire between Zuck and the press was over – he leaned over to Trump and was like – paraphrasing: “was 600b good? Don’t recall if that’s what we discussed”.
I’m assuming this is a bit of non-news - but am just trying to follow why it is news. Or if every hot mic capture is just juicy news.
trump was getting these tech ceos to say big investment numbers into the camera so that trump could say that he is the greatest president ever. The estimate that zuck gave was very high, and the fact that he later said ‘was 600b good?’ In the ‘hot mic’ moment suggests that the number was inflated to appease trumps ego and that these numbers are not real.
I would say it wasn't to appease trump himself, but to influence the people watching this.
Proof that these announcements are bs for the sheep. We already know that but the sheep do not.
600 b is more than the intrinsic value of zucksempire, not a chance they invest that, and if they did it would be for stuff that would make them more at our expense.
There is no such thing as intrinsic value.
There is though, the real assets that have value, the time value of future earnings from their assets minus a risk premium.
Market value is what is a worthless number in most all contexts outside of hostile takeovers and arbitrage plays on valuations by parasitical private equity and hedge funds.
For instance, tesla owns properties, machines, can turn out so many cars for how much with whatever risk of not.
Meaning they might have an intrinsic value of 10 billion, probavly less now with the whole nazi thing.
Market cap of a trillion for tesla is meaningless, that money does not exist, realizing actual money from the stock progressively lowers the value.