Please forgive me if this is newbish, but do these tokens actually confer ownership? Will they ever actually pay dividends?
What would an ideal scenario look like where purchasing these tokens would be profitable? Say, 10 years from now?
the tokens are not ownership tokens and they do not pay dividends.
These are not even the native tokens that are needed for the EOS blockchain to function.
These are ECR20 tokens that function on the ethereum blockchain and you are not even sure that they will be swapped to the native EOS blockchain tokens (= the real tokens that will hold value in the future).
See Q&A 21 on the eos.io website.
Cheers