>>105773153 (OP)
I'm pretty sure suffering is actually what investors purchase. When they invest in a company, they may pretend they're purchasing a stake in a company which creates (or will someday create) profit. I'm not sure this is most fundamentally what's actually happening, though. I think they're buying human suffering. They take a tour, they see people crying in the halls (e.g. Amazon) or sleeping in tents on concrete (xAI), and they want more of it. They understand on some subconscious level that by investing in these companies, they will directly cause more human suffering in a way that's hard to otherwise create without also creating consequences and personal liability.
Everyone understands that working people so hard that they have to sleep in tents at work is unnecessary, and may even be counterproductive. Anyone who's ever worked hard at something knows that there is a functional limit to how hard you can drive yourself and extract any result even partway commensurate with further effort. It follows that what you're buying isn't the output of creative energy but of suffering. There is a calculus of human suffering which is directly monetized behind the scenes which is what actually drives the modern economy. The foundational unit of value is no longer the dollar but a quantized derivation of human suffering.
I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
