I actually can understand why some shareholders see it this way. The stock market today is very much a Ponzi scheme in all but the very specific legal sense. Th

I actually can understand why some shareholders see it this way. The stock market today is very much a Ponzi scheme in all but the very specific legal sense. There are more shares owned than actually offered by a company, and investors are taught to treat shares more as a commodity than as an investment of a company, value-based investment, or really anything beyond a gamble that prices go up.