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by WalterBright 1046 days ago
There are a fixed number of shares. If A buys 100 shares, there are 100 shares fewer available for others to buy.

Until a corporation dilutes the shares by issuing more.

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Yes, that was kind of my point. I'm not really seeing how many more people could have possibly become mega-rich just by having bought more of the shares that happened to make the few people that actually did mega-rich, which seemed to be what you were suggesting - apologies if I misinterpreted.