Why would you think the S&P would be a good indicator of any of this lol do you know why companies are assigned to the S&P

Again, if there's a global trend depicting a decline in profitability, would those companies be exempt?

Think about it. Really think about it.

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Capitalism trends towards monopoly. The 500 largest corporations keep making money because they play an active role in this tendency, which is what allows them to continue making crazy profits

This is really what we doing on page 1000 smh

I know yall love living in a masturbatory echo-chamber, but damn

Also companies fall out of the top 500 all the time which makes it even dumber

Survivorship bias on steroids

So everybody else sees their rate of profit falling except the companies on the S&P.

Okay, I don't agree with that but I'll roll with it.

If I select a company at random that's not on the S&P, has existed for more than 15 years, and take a look at their books, do you think it should show a declining rate of profit?

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Again, do you know the difference between market capitalization and profit?

Do you know what the criteria for inclusion (and removal) of companies from the S&P are? (it's only tangentially related to profitability)

Here's a link:

investopedia.com/articles/investing/090414/sp-500-index-you-need-know.asp

We got a nigga that apparently did statistics/sampling methodology that doesn't know what simple random sampling is, and a nigga that doesn't seem to understand the difference between market cap and company profitability is.

It's like the blind leading the blind ITT

Pick a number, G.

big 1k but whats this 3-page bullshit yall discussing

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how do we know youre doing it randomly lmaoo

Do you think I'm that invested in this little discussion?

You can do it yourselves. Pick a company at random, check out their financials for the past 10 to 20 years by typing that into Google and seeing how it trends.

I'm not 100 percent convinced in the veracity of my perspective, which is why I've been asking for us to verify.

No need to rely on what a dusty nigga who didn't touch enough grass in the 60s said. We have access to the numbers: let's see if it actually checks out.

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Why are you acting like these studies don't have a methods section

Don't waste your time on this brainlet

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Nobody's posted any studies ITT, just out of context graphs.

There have been arguments critizing the whole "downward trending profits thing" since the 60s, see: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall#:~:text=The%20tendency%20of%20the%20rate,invested%20capital%E2%80%94decreases%20over%20time.

So it's hardly a new thing.

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