You are stakeholder of a utility when the amount of time you've contributed towards it's ownership is less compared to someone else who also contributed time towards the utility. The person with the most is the owner. The benefits of being a stakeholder are:
- You can trade your equity for time back that you can allocate towards your current day, which can be traded for money or allocated towards another utility you sell.
- If the current owner has less that 50% equity in the utility, you can collaborate with remaining owners to give your equity to another individual you wish to 'vote in' as the new owner. This acts as a means of direct democracy and performance monitoring.
- Sell some or all of your equity to the owner or anyone else. This is affected by supply, and is also affected by the enticement formula when the amount paid is more than what is sold. This has an interesting side effect - when the supply is high, then the amount of equity owned by the other person would be less than what you originally had. Any more spent (for enticement) does not count as cost of goods for the new owner of your equity.