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>Companies pay out dividends all the time and sometimes (very rare nowadays) they pay for stock buybacks out of their own pockets from the profit they have accumulated

Not, all stocks do that though. I just checked the FAANG stocks and only Apple pays dividends. Even so Apple has a yield of 0.63% That means you have to hold it for almost 159 years to recoup that investment. Meanwhile if you bought a year ago, by now the stock price has doubled which can allow you to recoup your investment because you can sell it to the "greater fool." Eventually dividends go down, the company goes bankrupt, or some other thing happens and you don't want to be the fool holding the bag.

In cryptocurrency there also exists yield farming and buy backs.

>That's how you get bubbles.

There will always be bubbles. It's like a video game. You need to be minmaxing. Find what bubbles currently exist and figure out how to profit off of them.