[1] https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/tech/nyse-hpq/hp/management
Either way, we have externalities between the people actually making the ink cartridge and the people buying the ink cartridge that drastically inflate the price.
If you multiply out percent of stocks owned by boomers (54%)[1] and 65+ year olds living in Florida (10%)[2], you get 5.4%. Which is a minuscule share. If you apply the "planned retirement communities in expensive-to-insure parts of Florida" criteria that drops the percentage even further. Moreover Florida isn't even the top state for seniors. California has more seniors. This still seems like a pathetic attempt to construct a despised demographic for a "us vs them" narrative.
[1] https://www.fool.com/research/how-many-americans-own-stock/
[2] https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest...
>Either way, we have externalities between the people actually making the ink cartridge and the people buying the ink cartridge that drastically inflate the price.
What you're describing as "externalities" is literally the opposite. It's fully internalized. People who buy printers are parties to a transaction between them and the manufacturer. That's not an externality, any more than starbucks selling overpriced coffee isn't an "externality" to its customers.
None. They just participated in an equities market. That equities market is now the main concern while doing business and it's now just as bad, if not worse, than a free rider problem.
They provided capital for the enterprise, and as econ 101 tells us, capital and labor both factor into production.