> let that sink in for a moment. he would then be the sole owner of space x, he would be making all the profits himself, hundreds of billions of dollars all going in his pocket. i did think about it for one second, but arrived at the correct conclusion. if his share prices shat the bed, then he would be broke, and unable to buy other shares... he would have no pennies. his credit would dry up. no one would loan him money to buy those, because if they thought it a good deal they'd just rather buy those themselves. this isn't speculative, it's what happened historically in the many examples of scenarios that we collaboratively described. the value of his stock is imaginary. any attempt to exploit the value (beyond cashing in 0.0001 of it) would result in share price crashing, and it being worth much less than claimed. this makes it untaxable and unspendable.
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