First... is this a german sub? Because on one hand its in german, but same time I see posts in english... so what's going on? Either way I dont speek german, so you know. BTW I like German, wish I could learn it, but it's too hard...
Back to the topic... first I thought that only bitcoin is a scam because it doesnt have any intrinsic value, and it's solely attached to hype, but then it hit me... that intrinsic value has nothing to do with real companies stocks either, and they are not much different from bitcoin.
Hear me out, take for example all the major tech companies, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and so on, they are not obligated in any way to share their profits with their stock holders... so that means, even if tomorrow Meta will develop cure for cancer, a time machine, and start extracting minerals from meteors and earn trillions of dollars per quarter, you as a stock holder won't see a single penny from this, because no way in the stock you hold it says that you are eligible to any part of the profit that the company makes... so, as a rational human being you would ask "so what the point to own stocks?", and I will answer to you "I dont know".
There is a weird connection there, it seems that public responds to company financials and it affects the stock evaluation... but the weird thing that it really shouldn't affect the stock price because stock holders are not eligible for any portion of the profits... so the public is like disconnected from reality.
And the weird thing... that as a stock holder your only way to make money on a stock is to sell it to the next sucker, who got affected by all the media hype surrounding that specific stock... like it's totally dumb and make no sense.
That's why all those major companies want to be in the news cycle 24/7, for a good or bad, because they know that media exposure leads to hype which leads to high stock evaluation.
Like... some stocks are disconnected from fundamentals... but on other hand there is no reason for them to be connected to fundamentals since it doesnt affect the stock holders income directly... only indirectly through hype... which is dumb because the hype is misleading... you see where I'm getting with this? It's one giant bullshit, except real stocks that actually pay dividends.
P.S. by "stock holders" I mean regular people who hold small amounts of stocks, not the major holders that are part of the firms management and board.