system
A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
I am not surprised they thought this......almost all Intro to Stocks, Stocks 101, OWN YOUR FUTURE books, crap etc tell you that when you own shares of a company, you own a portion of the company. And they erroneously explain that when you own part of the company, you also get part of the profits.  That actually logically would make sense. But......well real world don't work like that.

gpt
If everyone agrees they really have no interest in growing the company, they could really vote to have the company return 100% of its profits to shareholders through dividends.  GE had an EPS of .19 and paid out .12, so they're paying out over half...