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No, you’re in fact the one whose incorrect. Buying a share of GOOG in no way gives you rights to their trademarks or other IP.

In fact you don’t even get voting rights, unlike traditional stock. GOOG is the one that’s been “hollowed out “.

Likewise, owning a share of GOOG in no way gives you access to their cash.

There is one and only one thing you can do with a share of GOOG - hope to sell it to someone else for more money.

On the flip side, owning ETH gives you a stake which actually does give you governance rights, either via your own validator or a staking pool. And it gives you access to many other ways to participate in the network such as DeFi.



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