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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Are they though? Stocks is not money in bank account. Whereas bank accounts and loans mean that people can "own" the same money simultaneously, stocks are something else then money. They are pieces of a company and their price is dependent on their market value. But if one were to sell all of that suddenly, the value would obviously drop. Is this correct?
gpt
It's not exactly the same thing, my point was they can't access the entire value of their portfolio at once the same way that the bank can't provide access to their entire store of money at once. The moment one starts selling a significant amount of stock or withdrawing a significant amount of money the rest of the stock/stored money starts to be affected.

Also unrelated but multiple people can "own" the same piece of stock via short selling and the options market.