People are like "oh, they're just paying it to themselves". Well, sure, they don't have to write down the dividend they pay to themselves, but that doesn't cha

People are like "oh, they're just paying it to themselves". Well, sure, they don't have to write down the dividend they pay to themselves, but that doesn't change the spending that presumably is allocated from the dividend. One motivation for formalizing things that you don't have to is that then you have better excuses for not doing certain things. While they made up the dividend, it wouldn't make "looting the place" more sustainable to get rid of it. Formalizing the "looting" does highlight its unsustainability and seems like a reasonable reason to write an article to me.