In 2015, it seemed like a "slice of the pie" was something metaphorical which, for some, became obtainable. Here's why: Starting around '08, we fell into a recession; guess what? It's not the first time that it's ever happened in America, and it won't be the last!
But that's a blessing in disguise. Why? Because if you're on MediCal and suddenly they take away your doctor visits, you become fat and unclean. What's the plan of action? Go to Roebeck's, Subway, your grocery store...wherever! Start juicing, do the cardio...you know the drill!
So why are investments any different? For the last 2,000 years, we've blamed Walt Disney, the "Illuminati," the Mafia, anyone. Why not blame ourselves?! Me and a lot of my friends have been streaming music through Pandora since at least 2009; when was the best time to invest in that market? Put it to you this way, Pandora Media says it's been around for 10 years already. Ten years ago, a lot of us didn't know Pandora, or if it was even publicly available as a service. That right there would have been the perfect time to invest, so if projections show that Pandora stock is only bouncing between $11-17.80 per share, and from 2010 to the present, then that means that most of us have already lost the game, or at least in terms of web radio stock.
That's all just for fun anyway, but what I've been asking myself, Aaron Baker and others this year, is what exactly is that "trillion-dollar industry" that the BS banner ads are saying exists, within the walls of Bill Gates' mansion? And then I said to myself, "No way; that must be nanotechnology!" Sometimes I envision my nephew, along with other kids his age, living in a world where the computer is a part of the body, in a sense. Then you say, "Cool, just chip them all!" You say that...until you read about Google's latest endeavor.
So I am a writer and not a financial analyst; I can't really tell you, for sure, that Google Fiber is that next trillion-dollar industry, but if it is, then my advice to Warren Buffett and the big wigs, is that at a rate of $612-20 per share, buy and then buy again! Because I'm on SSI, so it would kill a guy like me to do this. But I'm pretending, right now, that I'm set sail with the captain, Warren Buffett. And what I would say to Mr. Buffett: Sir, I hope that you would buy at least $400-500k in this stock. Because if it's true that you're investing $6.5 million in 2015, then where exactly are you spending?
I don't even need to tell Warren Buffett, Nolan Bushnell or even my own father, CEO of Westside Collision in Lancaster, about what it is to invest in Google. Now for myself, I simply will not do it.
Regardless, I will say that Google Fiber, the company's proposed internet network, will expand if it gets its way. That means that we're looking at a whole new kind of monopoly, an electronic one; Apple becomes the gestapo of everything computer, Tesla is the country's automaker and Google would serve as the mainframe for the world.
That's kind of how it's coming together right now, if you've been following Silicon Valley over the last few business years. Look at the way that business is cutting-together right now: Apple makes a better computer than anyone, Tesla Motors is violently threatening to undermine the car market, and Google? In the eyes of the Charismatic Church, they just may be the Antichrist!
But is that true?! To simply throw criticisms to the wind, whether they are ours or others, and say that Google is taking over the world, without giving back?!
I'm not sure about that nowadays, and if it's true that Fiber's offering web service, at a rate of 1,000 megabits per second, then it will eventually become a standard. Obviously not right now, because the service is only available in 9 cities. Then again, in 2013, Tesla said that they would have most of their charging grid built by 2015-16; as of this moment, there are currently 508 Tesla "Supercharger" stations, from one coast to the next.
Google Fiber will expand beyond comprehension, and while I could be wrong, I doubt it. My dad raised me a gearhead, and then I learned computers on my own; not long after I proposed the "P85-R" idea to Tesla, the company released the P85D version of the Model S. With 700-horsepower, in an electric car and with all-wheel?! Um...yeah! I fell in love with the 1991 GMC Syclone when I was 18, and it used all-wheel drive with forced induction! No shit, we had these ideas eons ago!
Back in the early '90s, a lot of disabled kids like myself used to pull wheel stands on their power chairs. For us, it was a given that electric runs better than gas, but no one would've imagined a company like Tesla expanding, and at such a rate!
Try to visualize Google Fiber the same way; if our nation and others decide to adopt it as our world's internet protocol, then everyone needs to buy now, in anticipation of 2020...
