DEMONSTRATED INTEREST? WHAT’S AN INTEREST? What if all x companies compete for a

DEMONSTRATED INTEREST? WHAT’S AN INTEREST?
What if all x companies compete for a deal. Haven’t they “demonstrated interest”. Confusion over both of the terms demonstrated and interest: They haven’t demonstrated (performed an action at cost) to perform a voluntary transfer of interests (assets) until the deal is compete (exchanged). Otherwise anyone who bid on the deal would hold a fractional interest (ownership) in the revenue from the deal, without having to perform the work (deliver, exchange).

Opportunities the property of the issuer at least, and are a commons at most, until privatized(transferred) by a reciprocal exchange.

ETYMOLOGY
This is the difference between the original and still pervasive etymology in financial and legal definition of interest and the evolution of that term as the colloquial ‘interesting’. “To be between (possession) > to be important (valuable) > to compensation for a loss (asset) > broadened to general financial financial considerations > the cost of borrowing money > the idea of having a stake or involvement in something > colloquialized: intellectual curiosity (analogy).

One does not have an interest (ownership) until one has demonstrated an interest (born a cost by investing in and therefore creating something new ‘from the wild’), or born a cost in voluntary exchange of assets(reciprocity). One may possess an item, by stealing it, or one may falsely claim one has an exclusive interst inall or some asset, but one must bear a cost to transform (transfer) the state (ownership) of the asset.

You must demonstrate an interests to hold an interest, and thus convert an opportunity or possession to property the control over which is insured by yourself and others against involuntary transfer.

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CD

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