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by datadata 1468 days ago
What is the point of raising this distinction? Air has infinite value/worth to every human, but its price is zero. It would make as little sense to start accumulating air on the converse assumption that something that has value will eventually have a non-zero price as it would to short bitcoin on the hypothesis that it will eventually be priced at zero because it is worth zero. The goal of investing/speculating is increase the price fetched for assets you control. You can only do that with prices, value is irrelevant.