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by izacus 757 days ago
People create, join and own corporation to get monetary profit from them. That's it.

Is it broken? Yep. But the solution isn't going to be griping about a company doing what companies are built to do.

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I'm mostly wondering why shareholders go along with it or even pay on premium on shares making a lot of money now that may be comparatively worthless in 20 years. Do they really believe this is sustainable? Do they expect Google to just start issuing massive dividends? Are they just hoping for a greater fool?