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Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend::Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg stands to receive a payout of about $700 million a year from the social media giant’s first-ever dividend for investors.

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[+] [email protected] -14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's not money for nothing. It's money for the risk you take when investing in a company. Why the hell would anyone invest into anything if there wasn't possibility to get something out of it?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You just described gambling.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is basically gambling yeah. Especially when you're picking individual stocks instead of something like index funds. Bigger risk but also bigger plausible reward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And you don't understand why building a society based on gambling is a bad idea?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don't even know what you're trying to say there. The discussion is about the risks and benefits of buying and selling stocks. If you don't want to take that risk then don't buy stocks. No one is forcing you. I don't get how "building a society based on gambling" is all of a sudden a stance I'm supposedly defending here now. That's a strawman.