I can’t find where I said someone at McDonalds deserves your money.
Well, language has it’s ambiguities, but to me this is being silly. I didn’t tell someone what to do anymore than you just told me what to say. Or is your criticizing me a sign you don’t believe in free speech? I doubt that, that would be as absurd a conclusion on my part as yours of me here.
Daytrading is not investing a company you think is good. I am not sure if you know what day trading is. Daytrading is making money off the fluctuations of stocks. Flicking around here and there with short term investments that need have nothing at all to do with ‘good companies’. And in it’s extreme form it’s the shit that brought about the 2008 crash, precisely because it is not connected to anything of real value. Let me clarify that. It does not to do with the actual worth of products and services. It has to do with guessing at - though skill is definitely involved - small changes over tiny periods of time.
Because, of course, the only possible way to do things is the way they are currently done. Even if we assumed, as you do, that daytrading is the only kind of investment pattern - which it is not - rather than something that is recent, along with things like derivatives - you’re still assuming that this particular model is the only possible one. And if we did not use the stock model, no one could open a business or make it grow. Because when you imagine the world without this, you just subtract. But that’s a whole other discussion. Daytrading is just one of the new forms of investment - and ‘investment’ is a poor term for it - and, yes, it is parasitic.