The point is investors can just buy gold. They don't need to buy stock in Palantir and then have Palantir buy gold for them. If you don't need cash and can't bu

The point is investors can just buy gold. They don't need to buy stock in Palantir and then have Palantir buy gold for them. If you don't need cash and can't buy productive assets, give cash back to your investors and they can find something else to do with it, possibly buy gold.