> "returning money to the shareholders" is ultimately what companies are for
That's what shareholders want you to think. But societally and economically companies are mostly for everything else. If no company ever paid a single dividend or never bought back any of its stock nothing bad would happen. There are a lot of companies doing exactly that.
But if companies stopped doing everything else they do that they are supposedly not for, the economy would end.
That's what shareholders want you to think. But societally and economically companies are mostly for everything else. If no company ever paid a single dividend or never bought back any of its stock nothing bad would happen. There are a lot of companies doing exactly that.
But if companies stopped doing everything else they do that they are supposedly not for, the economy would end.