I mean, giving money back to investors is the foundation on which the entire stock market is built on. The whole original point of investing in a public company

I mean, giving money back to investors is the foundation on which the entire stock market is built on. The whole original point of investing in a public company was to get dividends. After all, if you're not entitled to a share of the profits, what's the point? Of course this has all changed, with many companies not paying dividends. But saying that a company shouldn't return money to the investors through either buybacks or dividends is kind of ridiculous.