Title. It occurred to me that despite not wanting to support musk or some other American businesses because of their recent change in policies, I’m still holding a stake in those companies.

  • nomoesyankho@lemmy.wtf
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    6 hours ago

    That’s the thing with americans and capitalist in general. You can’t claim moral highground when your savings are tied to how much fighter jet lockheed martin is selling this year. You’re just an asshole

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      2 hours ago

      yep! if you want to have a future in hell world, if you are invested in having a future in hell world, you are a piece of shit, and you have invested in being a piece of shit.

      sorry. I didn’t make it this way, I’m just not being paid enough to lie and go down on you about it.

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        10 hours ago

        Yes, that’s is how addendums work. They elaborate on what has been said to repeat what was said in a more complete manner, sometimes with examples.

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            If it wasn’t obvious I was trying to make a joke by imitating the tempo and the content of what the first comment said, but about addendums.

            Not sure if the joke was conveyed correctly.

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    24 hours ago

    If it makes you feel better, you probably also hold a stake in their direct competition.

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      A lot of their direct competition is not in the S&P 500 because they are not American companies. Hyundai, Volkswagen, Toyota, Nissan, BYD, etc. American automakers let the EV market languish so long that they are only now becoming legitimate competitors in that space

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        4 hours ago

        Well to buy Luigicoin, its really simple: You go to a 50501 Protest, you give in your community, you join a community network, and you try to reduce your business with Amazon and other companies helping Trump.

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    23 hours ago

    one of the reasons isn’t tanking faster, comes bundled up in many institutional accounts, retirement accounts, etc

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      3 hours ago

      In other words, is an integral part of our society that we’ve all collectively invested a lot of money into, for a lot of benefit.

      Almost as if the cars have value beyond a status symbol or signal of political allegiance.

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        2 hours ago

        So you’re saying a price-to-earnings ratio of ~90x over the last five years is a reasonable valuation… when their competitors are historically closer to… 6x?

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    23 hours ago

    If you’d like to hold a large cap blend that doesn’t include Tesla, you might like VTV (Vanguard Large Cap Value ETF). I didn’t see Tesla listed in it and I really doubt it’s any of the 339 companies it holds.

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      21 hours ago

      I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I might have agreed with you during the last American presidency, but at this point Tesla is a catalyst for fascism.

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        14 hours ago

        Why is the car company the catalyst? I’m seriously asking, not trolling. Is the boring company and space x also?

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          7 hours ago

          It’s a major supporter for Musk, allowing him to fund things via loans against stock. Not sure how much SpaceX pays Musk (I don’t think it’s a public company?)

          I don’t know much about boring

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    23 hours ago

    If this bothers you, you can short an amount equivalent to your index fund’s holding. But you’d have to track and maintain parity against the proportional allocation of the index fund as Tesla’s market cap changed and you invested more into the index.

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      21 hours ago

      I’m not sure that works. I was under the impression that shorts were fixed-term contracts and the index funds holdings are longs.

      You can’t “borrow” somebody’s long and sell it and then just… not return it. You are also (IIRC) paying a premium to be able to borrow the stock to sell.

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    22 hours ago

    American is kind of a central point for the market. Sure there are plenty of non American exchanges but if you want to do business with the “big boys” it is in New York.