I know this is tangental, but it fascinates me that you could hold a stock that pays <5% dividend yield whereas the bulk of the economic impact is wages, salari

I know this is tangental, but it fascinates me that you could hold a stock that pays <5% dividend yield whereas the bulk of the economic impact is wages, salaries, business with other companies, etc. The assumption that your stock price necessarily should go up I think is an assumption that will change somewhat in the next 50 or 100 years. In this sense, the rich, those with pension funds, but largely the financial managers dictate a lot of what happens in the economy.