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>Can you provide me with some concrete examples of famous, high profile tech stocks like facebook and snapchat giving a "share of their current/future assets/profits of the business" to stockholders?

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I'm not talking about dividends. I made that extremely clear. A lot of companies pay zero dividends and also make it clear they have absolutely no plans of paying future dividends either so there is no expected value of future profits that peg the stock price. There is no rights of voting or any kind of classical definition of "ownership" pegged to the stock. Look at SNAP, hundreds of millions of dollars of volume is traded per day of SNAP on exchanges. If I removed the ticker name from my post, would you think I was talking about a token or stock?

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