I Feel Guilt When I Invest in the Stock Market
As an investor, I know that a company will do everything they can to get the price of their stock to go up. I like this. As an investor, I like knowing a CEO will do backflips and commit multiple crimes so they can get their multi-million dollar bonus and secure their job at the top. It helps me. For a moment.
As a person, I feel guilty about a company doing everything they can to get the price of their stock to go up and I dislike this CEO with most of my being for what they stand for. I start to question and wonder how the workers are being treated. How many corners are being cut that affect the happiness of everyday employees? Each question leads to another question.
Yet I invest because I need to make that twenty dollars? That is all I am hoping to cash in, I'm not rich. I need that twenty dollars. If I can take advantage of a good day or swing trade I am going to take it. They can add up.
That is when I see something like this. Data. I love data.
Phizer has hit a point of support here. I think I am going to have to try and take advantage of this situation. Might not make a good day trade but if I hold it for a few days I should see some gains. Then I will sell.
Guilt sets in as I make the purchase, but not as much because it is a pharmaceutical company in this situation. It still does exist though. I begin to ponder about the employee at Pfizer who is currently suffering a terrible job that could be made better by Pfizer but Pfizer will not fix it. Orders from the top. No changes are to be made.
I am sure there are many of us out there who have worked at companies that are too big and do not really care about what is happening on the ground level. Places that do not offer their employees an incentive if the company makes money. I have tried to avoid that situation personally.
I do not like it when a bunch of suits control the day to day operations of an industry they have never truly worked in, other than the corporate office. Make them work at an entry position or in the retail stores first!
In my opinion and to continue this rant a bit more, when a company goes from one store to two, everything changes for the employees. It just does.
I understand why an owner of a company would want to open multiple stores. It makes perfect sense. The store is successful. Two would be better. I get it. You have a mortgage and mouths to feed. It would just be great if you could remember the hard work of the employees who helped get you there and treat all employees the way you did your first employees at store number one.
Quit widening the gap!
I know that small businesses love their employees. Big business, not so much.
I do have some life experience here. I have worked for a company that went from one store to two, then to ten in a few years. The changes were astonishing. Not for the better. More money for the top and more stress for everyone. I saw no benefits, only more work promoting the place I work. The company is good.
Today it seems impossible to avoid working for big business. Looking forward, it does not seem like things are changing anytime soon. Trading stocks is one of the things I have been doing to earn some extra money. I am good at it. I make money. It would be stupid for me to stop.
The guilt is still there though. It is always there. Does anybody else feel this way about investing? I cannot be the only one. Can I?
Crickets.