"the "owners" like us really don't pay the management a dime. When we buy 10000 shares, our money doesn't go to the company, but to the other guy like us who sold 10000 shares."

I wished you were right, because that would mean that the company would make a net profit out of which they could pay their salaries and didn't have to issue new shares every year and, in the process, dilute my shareholding.