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The New American Hustle: Dividends Over Day Jobs
Monday September 8, 2025. 04:00 PM , from Slashdot
![]() The r/dividends subreddit has grown tenfold to 780,000 members over five years, while YouTube channels and Discord servers dedicated to dividend investing proliferate. YieldMax's MSTY fund, offering a 90% distribution rate through complex derivatives, has underperformed MicroStrategy stock by 120 percentage points since February 2024 when dividends are reinvested -- nearly 200 points when payouts are withdrawn. Speaking to Bloomberg, finance professor Samuel Hartzmark identified this as the 'free dividends fallacy,' where investors fail to recognize that dividends reduce share prices rather than creating additional wealth. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/1235210/the-new-american-hustle-dividends-over-day-jobs?utm_sour...
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