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[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

When people sell their stocks, that value doesn't vanish - it turns into cash.

So another way to look at is "rich people now have $1 trillion more in cash now than they did yesterday".

And that cash will turn back in shares at the next opportunity...

It's like a spring that gets pushed down and then released again later. All the energy used to push it down doesn't go away, it is stored in the spring.

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