Buy one share in a company you use every day

The receipt printed after your coffee lists a company number nobody reads, then gets balled into a pocket. Somewhere behind that number sits a share price, updated every few seconds, freely checkable on any exchange website. Buying one—often possible for a few dollars through ordinary trading apps, sometimes with no fee at all—makes you, in the most technical and unglamorous sense, an owner. Not enough to matter at the AGM, though technically you could vote by post. Mostly you will just recognise the ticker symbol now, on the news, like a stranger's face you've placed.