I feel folks are making too much distinction between income and...

I feel folks are making too much distinction between income and capital. Besides small tax differences for most, it's all cash, and if you get 25% a year, you could view that as 5% income, 20% capital gain, and reinvest that into new shares. What part of 5% yield and 20% capital gain is a bad thing? Of course, once the market gets what's going on, there will no doubt ( over 50 plus years) be a rerating of share price as well. 
Less than 4 years payback is just that-you have your capital back, and own a 25% yielding share for free.

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