Kazuya1987 (I will copy-paste my reply from the Discord server here) Let me start by saying that the current proposal is only to initiate this revenue sharing idea. How we do it in practice is an entirely different topic, and there are many ways we can think of. Dividends being just one of them, but buy backs being another (and I'm sure there's more examples).
But to your point: I dont think the comparison to the likes of Amazon really applies. I mean DAOs have low capital requirements and generally high profitability. So it's not that a dollar paid out to stakers is a dollar misspent, as would be the case for Amazon (and I fully agree with this in the case of traditional companies).
Currently the treasury is raking in 10% of every harvest, which is a very nice income stream that doesnt really serve a purpose except to pay current devs & do some yield farming. So of course if there is a good business opportunity I'm all for spending more on that, but I believe that the tradfi idea of "misusing" company assets through dividends is a false dichotomy when it comes to web3.
One thing that supports this that is that we dont actually need to spent "real" money to pay out a revenue share to stakers. We could use the treasury funds to pay for ongoing developments/opportunities, continue yield farming, and simply mint alTokens to reward stakers. So in essence we can totally do both. (Of course there's a lot of work to be done on determining the exact parameters for this.)
But I understand your reservations and I think this would be a very healthy discussion to have once we actually have a DAO and can start working on this revenue allocation/sharing model.