I was just saying that it is a shame that there are people like you shoving this stuff down other people’s craws. I was not supporting any agenda. Generally, I think wealth is a good thing; evidently you think it is not — are you a conservative? It appears you are not.
Here’s my story. I “get paid” as you put it, 57 cents per share in dividends on a quarterly basis for my personal decision to buy Apple stock.
In 1999 when I bought my first personal computer, which happened to be a Macintosh that I liked and found worked well for my needs, I also purchased 25 shares of Apple stock for $2,800. Over the years I purchased another $8,200 worth of stock in APPL.
Apple has paid me about $20,000 in dividends and my stock purchases have split three times, the most notable split was 7 shares for 1 in 2014.
My $11,000 investment in this company is now worth $353,225 as of five minutes ago, so YEAH, Apple’s been very, very good to me and I am proud to be in the “5th column” of a successful American based corporation.
I only wish I could afford to have a $3 million dollar stake in Apple like our current President, Donald J. Trump had until he sold his stocks last June to run for office.
http://fortune.com/2016/05/20/donald-trump-apple-stock/
B$ You think wealth is a good thing if you like the people that has it. This is the only forum that people come to just to insult the poster because they hate Apple and the people that use their products. I don't think much of Apple either but I love their products.
I detest Bezos but I use his service almost daily because he provides a service that others can't touch.
Swordmaker posts items that interest Apple products users they have little to offer people that use M$ products so there is a ping list for people that use those products. I do not wonder over to those threads to tell the readers how stupid they are, so what is it that compels M$ users to wonder over here to tell us Cook is a money grubbing homo? Or their products suck and cost too much, blah, blah, blah.
Ever watching Tucker Carlson try to make a point with a died in the wool socialist and notice that no matter how many facts he quotes that destroy their point, they never change their position. The same thing applies here. Yo can of course avoid all that by just not reading these threads.