What I really like about $FB and its metaverse ambition is that a big tech company is finally giving investors innovation & a new field that has the potential to be the next big thing. Not just providing short-term financial engineering things like buybacks and dividends...Now obviously, many people don't see the vision in the Metaverse yet. Still, for years big tech had only used their capital to "tweak" their stock prices with buybacks/dividends & stock splits, and now a company is finally giving us something more.

And financial engineering can give investors short-term returns but in the long run, it cannot be the main driver of returns. The biggest long-term factor of return for companies is innovation that fuels growth.

I will always prefer & reward innovation vs financial engineering.