> There's no world in which the owners of those stocks benefit from them being lent out to short sellers, despite creative rhetoric to the contrary. Not true -

> There's no world in which the owners of those stocks benefit from them being lent out to short sellers, despite creative rhetoric to the contrary. Not true - many mutual funds pay out securities lending revenue to investors. For example, VTSAX had ~$170M in net lending revenue in 2020, about 1% of fund total income (nearly all of overall income is from dividends). https://www.vanguard.com/funds/reports/q850.pdf https://www.vanguard.com/funds/reports/q850.pdf