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stogottoday at 3:36 AM1 replyview on HN

I hypothesize all dividends, no share value. How would that world look


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fsckboytoday at 3:55 AM

that makes no sense. companies need capital, that's why there is a stock market. dividends are paid from past earnings, never capital (earnings are only a %age of the value of the capital) and not from higher expectations of the future.

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