• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I’ll disagree, companies are led by shareholder interest, not people. the CEO? replaceable the moment shareholders want, he isn’t the leader.

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        16 hours ago

        they aren’t, they just want number go up, no interest whatsoever about the company. and all their individual opinions are averaged out.

        and most of them aren’t even people, but institutions, banks, funds…

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          Who runs the institutions, banks, and funds? Yes, they are stupid and short-sighted and greedy but ultimately that does not mean they get to hide behind a company. You talk about them having a pretty singular interest and then say it’s all averaged out, but the average between a pool of nearly the exact same opinions isn’t particularly important or nuanced.

          Companies do not get opinions. If the people who run them want to share their voice they can vote like everyone else, and if they don’t like democracy they can drown themselves in their pools.

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            15 hours ago

            those institutions are human, and have no human interests. they are a super organism. an emergent behavior of our capitalist society. they are literally burning the planet and killing us in the millions.

            they get an opinion about things the same way a cancer gets an opinion about treatment.