Imagine you own a goose that lays golden eggs. It lays one golden egg per year. How much would you sell it for? Probably not one golden egg, but definitely you'd sell if for a million gold eggs. You'd probably settle for maybe 5? 10? 15? Something like that.
Suppose the goose only lays one egg per year now (or none at all!) but it's still young and most people expect it to start laying four or five or even ten or twenty eggs per year in a few years from now. It's impossible to tell for sure how many it'll lay over its life, or when that will happen, or if it will happen at all. NOW how much do you sell it for?
That's the stock market.
A bunch of investors think a bunch of gooses will start laying a ton more golden eggs soon, and they're willing to pay big bucks now in exchange for the possibility of that in the future. This isn't a pyramid scheme or a zero sum game or anything like that. It's just a prediction of the future which may or may not be correct, and only time will tell.
You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Whenever two people engage in a transaction and walk away happy, value has been created. A zero sum game would be if the economy were a pie of static shape, where if you have more then I have less. But it isn't like that. The pie grows, and every time there is an equitable transaction with value being created, the pie gets bigger and everyone is better off. That's the opposite of a zero sum game.
Virtually everything we eat now is GMO after countless generations of selective breeding and all that. Ever read about the wild versions of common foods? Bananas, watermelons, corn, all that stuff in their completely natural wild form is unrecognizable from the monstrosities on sale in every grocery store.
It's super interesting to me that there are so many people who find it more believable that aliens invented hyperdrives or 4d space folding or wormholes or whatever and came over here to buzz our fighter jets...rather than believe that these guys are nuts, lol. Your paragraph is BY FAR the most plausible explanation I've heard. Although I do find this whole thing real interesting and in general I support more investigations into Weird Shit.
Yeah my main takeaway is that there isn't a good method of reporting anomalies. Fravor said on 60 minutes they were ridiculed and the ship played Independence Day, Men in Black, and Signs. To me that's like a navy boat driver running into some weird debris in the water, reporting it, and everyone laughs at them and makes Cthulhu jokes. If there's weird shit out there flying around or floating around friggin report it and investigate, what's the big deal?
That wasn't my take on it. Maybe we are thinking of different scenes in the movie - sorry, different points in the hearing - but I understood the question was "is it POSSIBLE they are a threat" not "do you actively think they are a threat" or whatever. Subtle but super important difference.
The republicans ability to get people to vote against their own interest is astonishing. Truly the most effective propaganda campaign in history with the possible exception of Goebbels convincing Germany it's a good idea to invade the whole world.
Do they have access though? I'm not sure if that is true without a court subpoena. That's what a hypothetical supreme court case in the near future might decide, but we are not there yet to my knowledge.
For most of us, going to live in "the wild" is as preposterous as us returning to the oceans we crawled out of eons ago. We've evolved past that, and are no longer suited for that environment, at least not naturally anyway.
Yeah let's all go back to subsistence agriculture! Every time my mind wanders and I find myself romanticizing an age of simpler times and communal living I remind myself of the realities of that sort of lifestyle.
You mean it's almost like RICH people who need abortions are going to get them. Crucial distinction. It takes resources to get yourself to another state and a lot of people can't even afford to take time off work let alone pay for gas/bus ticket/plane ticket/hotel etc.
That's basically my opinion too about this and 9/11 conspiracies. The gov demonstrates their incompetence every chance they get and you want me to believe they successfully implemented a decades long coverup involving presumably hundreds or thousands of people over the years, with no verifiable evidence leaking? And more importantly we don't see any alien tech implemented in our military or elsewhere.
I want to believe, as mulder would say, but..sorry..wake me when there's evidence..
I put it on intending to skim through a few minutes and I watched literally every second. The last time that happened was the Amber Heard v Johnny Depp court case, I just couldn't look away lol
Did you catch all the snarky remarks the R's made? I had never heard of any of those people except AOC and I could identify the party of the speaker based on whether they talked shit or not. Mostly just little things like "I don't trust anyone in this town" referring to DC etc. They go out of their way to say it is bipartisan and not political but can't resist the urge to trash talk.
For me, the biggest evidence that the gov has nothing, no aliens, no spacecraft, no tech, is that we aren't seeing it deployed. If they had anything they sure as shit would be using it.
Yeah I really appreciated the majors tone, especially when asked why he calls them UAP instead of UFO or whatever. He said it is to keep options open for other explanations, which it could be literally anything. I think if pilots are encountering weird shit in the skies that are cause for alarm then it should be investigated, whether it is stray weather balloons or fourth dimensional alien overlords.
Imagine you own a goose that lays golden eggs. It lays one golden egg per year. How much would you sell it for? Probably not one golden egg, but definitely you'd sell if for a million gold eggs. You'd probably settle for maybe 5? 10? 15? Something like that.
Suppose the goose only lays one egg per year now (or none at all!) but it's still young and most people expect it to start laying four or five or even ten or twenty eggs per year in a few years from now. It's impossible to tell for sure how many it'll lay over its life, or when that will happen, or if it will happen at all. NOW how much do you sell it for?
That's the stock market.
A bunch of investors think a bunch of gooses will start laying a ton more golden eggs soon, and they're willing to pay big bucks now in exchange for the possibility of that in the future. This isn't a pyramid scheme or a zero sum game or anything like that. It's just a prediction of the future which may or may not be correct, and only time will tell.