[panick21_]

> but my impression is that your average investor is interested in very short term profit

You can actually figure out how much of a stock is traded and if your assumption is true then there would have to be far more trading.

> one of the top questions was whether Tesla was going to pay dividends!

How do you know what answer the people who voted for the question wanted to hear?

[oxplot]

> How do you know what answer the people who voted for the question wanted to hear?

Interesting point. My intuition tells me that most people who are looking to get paid are the ones asking the question.

[panick21_]

I can tell you that the person who got a question in literally every year since like 10 years is a long term investor. See Tesla Daily Podcast.

Long term investors are very well organized and upvote certain questions.

However that question was not from him.