what's the difference between Bitshares and a traditional company?
a key difference is, in Bitshares, almost all the users are at the same time shareholders, BTS is not only the share of Bitshares, but also the token/fuel for using Bitshares service. but in traditional company, this seldom happen, only a very small part of iPone users are at the same time shareholders of Apple.
the price of BTS depend little on dividends, but greatly on the traction to users. a enough low fee is more important to the active users(also shareholders) than some little dividends, dividends don't play an important role in a blockchain platform, there's no dividends in Bitcoin, Ethereum but these communities grow much bigger than Bitshares.
if we pay dividends by charging more fees, the active users(they are also shareholders) will be hurt, and finally the ecosystem will also be hurt, maybe some pure shareholders is happy, but how can they bring?
sometimes I feel the word "DAC" is a little misleading, maybe "DAO"(decentralized autonomous organization) is better. I even feel we should forget dividends.
I am very sure that China community will reject any proposal for paying dividends with charging more fees.