“So, I just went to this place and became part of their pack and they give me food, head massages and belly rubs every day”

My point is that it’s a horrible approximation, especially for things like “growth” stocks and during market bubbles.

Further, companies buying other companies don’t purchase them for the “value” of that company, they purchase them for the amount of money that those who own that company want to part with their share of the company. This is all over the place and even for the same person varies widely at different points in time - people can and do (it’s just good business sense) demand as much money for their stocks as they can get away with meaning that the amount paid is not necessarily the amount the company is worth.

As for your response to my 3rd point, I don’t think I’ve explained it correctly - my point is that the “value” of a company is often in things which aren’t easily quantified in money (or gold, or whatever currency token), something especially bad in “growth” “tech” stocks because there’s a double problem that to find a monetary expression of the value of the company you need to find a money value of “intellectual property” (which Tech companies are generally heavy on, much more so than capital assets which are far easier to value) which is notoriously hard and all over the place and, worse, find a money value for future market prospects and profitability (because they’re “growth” stocks, so their value is not on today’s market share and revenues for their products and services) which is even more full of la-la-land wishful thinking pulled-out-of-somebody’s ass valuations than intellectual property.

So my 3rd point isn’t about that it’s somehow wrong to translate the value of a company into monetary units, it’s that said conversion is another source of error with an error amount which can vary a lot between companies and be massive in some cases.

There are three massive mathematical assumptions to determine the “value” of the stock market:

• The price of a stock of a company times the number of stocks of that company is the “value” of that company
• The price of all stocks of a company is equal to the price for which a stock of the company was last traded, a simple linear extrapolation
• The “value” of a company is measured in currency units.

It seems clear to me that some of even all of those are in fact wrong and do not represent reality.

In other words, the whole thing is bullshit.

Certainly it would explain why stock markets are far more about faith and things like momentum than they are about fundamentals.

Pretty wild turning a Masochism hobby into a job in Electronics Manufacturing.

Alternatively a server-only qBittorrent (controllable via the web-interface only) without docker (package: qbittorrent_nox) behind an always on VPN, configured to only bind to the network interface of the VPN so that it doesn’t send any data outside the VPN does the same but it’s much lighter so you can put it in shitty-shit hardware.

This is what I have in the cheap mini-PC which I use as Homeserver/NAS/TV Media Player.

“Yesterday we were at the brink of abyss, today we took a step forward”