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submitted 7 months ago by jackalope@lemmy.ml to c/antitrust@lemmy.ml
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[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago

The stock market hasn't reflected reality for decades.

It is only now that reality sucks so bad that the disconnect has come in to question.

[-] evujumenuk@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I feel like as an argument, this isn't really saying a lot. There's an idea that markets, including the information economy that a stock market hinges on, are efficient, and thus, inaccurate pricing pretty much cannot exist. But if you remember that this is just a convenient oversimplification, you realize that stock markets haven't ever once reflected reality from, like, the day they were invented.

The article is also a bit lazy in arguing that an AWS outage should be bad news for AWS. To the contrary, this outage serves as a powerful reminder how commonly used, depended on, and entrenched AWS has become — traditionally, outages tend to raise stock prices of companies suffering technical failures. It's more curious that in this case, no significant change either way seems to have happened.

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

I agree: The stock market has only ever been a way for the rich to pull one over on poor people.

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

why would it go down on this? it's proof of the strength of their monopoly

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That's why Microsoft had to respond in kind.

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