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It is irritating when people who have no idea what they’re talking about make judgmental comments like “interesting what wall st rewards”. This guy has no clue what wall st rewards. He clearly does not understand the current situation. He clearly does not follow it in depth.

If you’re going to excuse this guy making an obnoxious unfounded moral high ground claim, grant me the same courtesy for telling others not to preach about things they don’t know.

If you ever find yourself writing something like “I don’t know much about X.” Then don’t conclude your statement with an assertion about X. Go learn about X or ask questions or shut up. Your opinion contributed negative value when it’s knowingly predicated on incomplete information.

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> This guy has no clue what wall st rewards. He clearly does not understand the current situation. He clearly does not follow it in depth.

Would you mind sharing what the other comment is missing?

Sure! If you’re going to start with the financial value of any company, begin with their net income, growth trajectory, dividend yield, etc. Observe that none of this includes media headlines.

After that, you can start to try and figure how where most of the money comes from. For Apple this is the iPhone hardware sales and the App Store tax. For Microsoft it’s split roughly evenly across cloud, business processes and PCs. Cloud is the biggest.

These are the basic fundamental facts that begin to describe why Microsoft may or may not be valued. I don’t care or have an opinion on it. But I’m irritated by some guy saying he heard four media headlines ergo shame on wall st. for trading based on those four headlines. Like shut the fuck up man. That’s such a stupid claim. And look how many people have been suckered into responding to this garbage.

I disagree with the original commenter, I think the switch is because of the EUs crackdown on apples monopoly like practices(among other reasons). However your comment in response is not better than his original. Who are you to decide who can hold a moral judgement. You give no better argument to hear out your opinion over the originals.

The problem is not holding a moral judgment. The problem is asserting that wall st behaves according to the four media headlines that he read; and then encouraging people to pass a moral judgment on them on that premise. His premise is stupid and basically acknowledged by the poster as underinformed.

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