News this week that inflation eased more than expected in October solidified the view that the Federal Reserve is done with its most aggressive rate-hike campaign in four decades.

And that could be a boon for the stock market and your 401(k).

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    You shouldn’t dismiss those as imaginary as money doesn’t pop out of thin air. All those gains need to be created by real workers being exploited harder elsewhere.

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      When tech companies that have never made a profit are still being traded for significant amounts of money per share, I’d call it imaginary numbers.

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          “I’m confident that this company that has never made money will make money someday, so I’m going to pay $30 a share for it” still sounds like it’s imaginary money to me.

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            That’s because you don’t understand how new and growing companies work. You don’t show a “profit” if you invest your revenue back in the company.

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            No, it’s called expected value. Amazon never made a profit for decades until it did.

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                I mean the fact that it didn’t have a profit for many years after that. Until 2017 it was essentially 0 profit because Bezos kept reinvesting the money back into the business

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      The numbers are imagined and have a weak relationship to how many ppl get exploited, but the system as a whole does make people exploit others.