I was mostly talking about stock buybacks https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/?sh=5a5d42806

I was mostly talking about stock buybacks https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/?sh=5a5d42806b1e https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-... Dividends were often a very small piece of a companies expenses, just to incentivize long term holding of shares, not short term seeking of profits