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by googlryas 2019 days ago
But things are only valuable because people think they are valuable. It's not clear to me why I should need to change my behavior because other people have changed how they view me or my property.

If I find a special rock in my back yard that someone would pay me $100,000 for - I get to keep all that money in your system I assume. But if I find a special rock in my back yard that someone would pay me $1,000,000,000 for - I don't get to keep the money, or if I want to hold onto the rock, I need to give part of the rock away?

More concretely - imagine if TSLA has crossed the threshold because of the recent rally, where now Elon "should" be forcibly divested of part of his ownership of the company. Let's say he goes from 20% to 5%.

Later, the stock crashes back down below the threshold. Does Elon get his 15% back?