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I am worried that you don’t understand what a share is, yes You still have just one share, but that share represents a claim on an underlying group of assets which had more than tripled in size in the last twenty years, its. It just 1’s and 0’s.

I am not sure why you are struggling to understand this concept.

try hard to understand what I am about to say, with out trying to just think of a response until after you understand my point.

when you buy an ounce of gold, you own a fixed number of gold atoms that will never grow.

When you buy a Berkshire share you own a group of underlying businesses and investments that can grow.

for example Berkshire now owns 5% of Apple, which it did not own 20 years ago, it owns a larger slice of the Coca-Cola company, many of its businesses have also grown in size etc.

so yes you own 1 share of Berkshire, but what is relevant is that the share represents a growing pile of assets, where as you gold won’t grow.