Last year, I started investing, with not very awesome results after this week's downturn.
During this time, the following question has been tormenting me: What is the value of investing in a company by purchasing shares in the secondary market?
I search for answers to this question, but the ones I find don’t fully convince me. It helps measure the value of companies, you receive dividends so that in 100 years you recover the initial investment...
The only logical answer I found was from a Spanish entrepreneur who said he used his company's shares as collateral for debt.
But the question remains: What is the ultimate goal of buying shares in the stock market? What differentiates a digital asset with no backing from a minority share in a company?