One thing people consistently fail to consider is that companies don't just take all of their profits and hand them over to investors. Divdends are a fraction of income. The rest is invested in the company. Meaning better technologies. Or maybe more jobs. Companies are strongly discouraged from accumulating billions in cash so that means it is being invested in something else.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.