[thetopher]

I don’t know if these are good examples. Money and electricity both have inherent liabilities that don’t seem to translate to stock. At the end of the day, cash has to be transported and stored somewhere. Negative interest rates can be used to effectively pay somebody else to store your cash. A similar situation has happened with oil prices going negative.

Negative electric rates could be used to increase load on a grid that would otherwise be generating too much electricity.

Is there any kind of liability that comes with owning stock in a company? I don’t see any motivation to ever pay for somebody to take ownership of your stock.

[infthi]

In 2022, Meta was added to the list of terrorist and extremist organisations in Russia, and some people suggested that owners of Meta stock should be considered sponsors of terrorism. Do a few more steps and stock may become a liability.

[nologic01]

yep, assuming nothing extraordinary will ever happen might be reasonable but its not spanning the full set of outcomes.