Opus Vida – An Individual Life
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Free Fall 2 – It works both ways.
With “Free Fall” collusion of major market movers and auto trading caused a cascade of plummeting shares across the board. When initiators move back into the market, share prices rise, to the former prices and perhaps beyond. Real money was gained; real money was lost.
The Gamestock episode of 2021 turns this concept around: with every day investors [the common folk] colluding over social media to buy shares, causing the price to increase enormously. On the way up some would take the profit, and when the time was right the sells came in with everyone rushing to not be the last man standing.
Remember the dirty little secret: A stock price cannot move unless someone buys. For the price to go up, someone is willing to sell at a higher price and someone is willing to buy at that higher price. For the price to go down, someone is willing to sell at a lower price and someone is willing to buy at that lower price.
There was real money gained; there was real money lost. There was also public, congressional and regulatory outrage that a bunch of “retail” traders conspired to manipulate the market. When the major market movers do the same, it’s called a market correction. And nobody complains.
Welcome to My Life – 72 Years and Counting
An individual is born, lives a life accumulating things, ideas, experiences, and then dies. Where go the artefacts generated through that life? Family is first on the scene, going through the remains, but family have only so much space so the pickings are small. The individual's life is forgotten except for photos kept and reminiscences among themselves. How many generations of photos are kept? How many stories remain? The experiences and ideas. Who gets my stuff when I'm gone? Who really cares? My guitars, songs, writings, stories, essays, drawings – the stuff of my life – furniture I've made, wood that I've worked, things fabricated.
We chronicle the lives of "important" figures throughout history. Very few of us warrant a gander: the hopes, loves, dreams, ideas of the rest of us. What's your story? What's your song? What have you done? We can be Tom Hanks when he made fire in "Castaway" - "look what I have done!" Lest we forget ourselves, let us say "look what we have done!
– Thom and Willy