That really wasn't the point. I actually also build furniture but that isn't the point either. Lets say I needed a "product" from Bob. I can't just pay Bob $1,000,000 for his "product" because there'd be questions about where the money came from. But, if Bob bought 1,000,000 shares of some company for a penny each, he would have spent $10,000 on the stock. If I, then, bought his stock for $1,010,000, it would effectively be paying him the $1,000,000 that I owed him for his "product". Of course, there's no way that his shares would be the only ones I'm buying, it's illegal, and there would be easier ways to do this (isn't this basically what bitcoin is?). But, it was an odd thought exercise for me.