• tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Those who have the most shares (the private buyers, execs, c-suite, boardmembers, DJT n Fam) purchased well before IPO.

    The “average buyer” are the retail big box store brokers who sold off those early shares to your name brand brokers so morons on WSB and Robinhood could claim to be astronaut investors.

    I’m probably wrong about something so don’t fact check me.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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      8 hours ago

      No that’s pretty much it. Big institutional investors already were invested privately before. A handful of smaller institutions usually get priority at special rates unaffected by the initial fluctuations.

      The big bold number that gets blasted by the media are what the everyday person has access to. And they’re always the first to get fucked, as designed.

      Wall Street’s motto is: Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Everything follows that.