UnclePhilip wrote:
Nothing to do with scoring points...
The greatest sadness for me personally is that people might see this thread as an indication of 'both sides' wishing to score points, which as far as I'm concerned couldn't be further from the truth...
From my previous analogy, if a 'Racer' cornered a 'Jogger' and tried to convince him to concede that 'because he runs', then 'he must be interested in speed and timings', then it wouldn't be 'point scoring' for that Jogger to explain why, actually, he's not, and that there's different, non-speed-related benefits to doing things the way they might prefer, with the complete understanding that gaining those non-speed-related benefits might come at a cost of, well, yes - some speed.....
Like I said before, whilst this debate persists in being framed using a fundamentally flawed 'Total Return vs Dividend Income' premise, then the above situation of the joggers trying to explain that it's a flawed concept will also persist, but that doesn't mean those Joggers are trying to score points - they're not, they're just trying to explain themselves....
It means the Racers are wrong to persist with not fully understanding the appeal of jogging to others, and trying to continually force their 'racing' mentality onto completely different people...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess