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And cash is not an investment. Trying to conflate the two just makes for gobbledegook.


Equity is only colloquially an “investment”.

The investment is what the company spends the money raised on.

Equity is just one kind of savings.


Mushing all the terms together just makes a hash of any intelligent conversation.

Use precise terms if you want to discuss investments and finance.


That's exactly what I'm saying, “investment” has a precise meaning in economics, it's the increase of productive capital (example: building a data center is an investment).




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