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The market is a cathedral of silent testimony, where the bones of shattered expectations litter the pews beside the altars of overnight fortunes. To invest is to wager not merely dollars, but faith-a faith that the machinery of capitalism, for all its grinding indifference, will elevate the prudent. Consider the case of Apple: a company that transformed from a Silicon Valley parable into a colossus of consumption, its stock a vessel for both ambition and hubris. If one had deposited $10,000 into its shares in 1995, the compounding alchemy of reinvested dividends and price appreciation would have swelled that sum to $6.9 million by 2023. Yet such a figure, staggering as it is, reveals less about the virtue of Apple’s products than it does the moral vacuum of a system where wealth accumulates like snow in a blizzard-relentless, impersonal, and heedless of the human cost.
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Apple’s wares are not merely devices but totems of modern devotion. The iPhone, the iPad, the MacBook-each is a sacrament in the church of convenience, their sleek surfaces promising liberation while binding users to an ecosystem as inescapable as it is profitable. This is not innovation; it is the refinement of captivity. The company’s ascent to the pantheon of global corporations-third in market value, fourth in U.S. sales-is a testament not to the superiority of its products, but to the depth of human gullibility in the face of aesthetic seduction. One might argue that Apple’s true genius lies in its ability to manufacture desire, a skill honed with the precision of a medieval guildmaster.
The chart above traces the arc of this modern parable. From the nadirs of 1995 to the peaks of 2023, Apple’s trajectory mirrors the rise and fall of empires. Yet the numbers alone obscure a darker truth: the dividend reinvestments that inflated the $6.9 million total were not gifts, but siphons from the labor of millions-engineers, factory workers, and app developers-whose contributions are reduced to decimal points in a shareholder’s ledger. The irony is that Apple’s dividend yield today, a paltry 0.5%, is a token of generosity from a company that extracts its value through monopolistic pricing and the relentless churn of planned obsolescence.
Let us not delude ourselves: Apple’s growth was a fluke, a concatenation of favorable winds (the dot-com boom, the smartphone revolution) and the absence of regulatory restraint. To expect a recurrence of such growth is to mistake luck for strategy. Yet investors, like moths to a flame, continue to flock to its stock, seduced by the mirage of perpetual expansion. This is the tragedy of modern finance: the conflation of corporate longevity with invincibility.
For the equity researcher, Apple’s story offers a lesson in the futility of nostalgia. In 1995, the company was already a public entity, its IPO long behind it. The myth that fortunes are made only in the first days of trading is a superstition, a relic of the gold-rush mentality that ignores the labor required to pan for digital gold. Diversification, too, is a shield against the hubris of singular bets. A portfolio is not a lottery ticket; it is a bulwark against the entropy of market cycles.
And yet, the most profound takeaway is this: the $1 million in dividends that swelled the original $10,000 investment were not the product of Apple’s benevolence, but the extraction of value from a world that no longer questions the cost of its conveniences. Capitalism, in its purest form, is a ledger of omissions. It records profits but forgets the hands that build, the mines that bleed, and the futures mortgaged for the sake of quarterly reports.
Investors would do well to remember that no stock chart, no matter how elegant, can capture the weight of such omissions. The market is a mirror, and in it, we see not the glory of progress, but the silhouettes of our complicity. ⌛
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