[byrneseyeview]

I'd sell it if I had an option to buy it back.

All of the unresolved questions you have also apply to equity in corporations. Except that corporations live forever, rather than for seventy years, so the uncertainty is compounded.

I don't understand the 'corrupt' argument. Do you worry about this with regard to stocks, too? Does owning AMZN make you 'corrupt' when you ignore Barnes & Noble?