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{{Image|Gordon Gekko|png|The ugly face of shareholder capitalism, yesterday.}}}}''Warning for Millennials and Simon Sinek fans: this page was produced in a factory powered by sarcasm. We cannot guarantee this page is sarcasm free''. <Br>  
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Cancelled.  A transparently bad idea, first formulated in 1987 by [[Wall Street|Michael Douglas]]<ref>[[Adam Smith]]: “Oi!”</ref> and now mercifully forgotten, having been devastated by {{author|Simon Sinek}}’s excoriating, timeless classic, {{Br|The Infinite Game}}. It is now [[Stakeholder capitalism|universally understood]] that the employed executives of a corporation are there to take the powerless [[shareholder]]s’ [[Capital structure|capital]], and use it to [[virtue signal]] on [[Twitter]].
Cancelled.  A transparently bad idea, first formulated in 1987 by [[Wall Street|Michael Douglas]]<ref>[[Adam Smith]]: “Oi!”</ref> and now mercifully forgotten, having been devastated by {{author|Simon Sinek}}’s excoriating, timeless classic, {{Br|The Infinite Game}}. It is now [[Stakeholder capitalism|universally understood]] that the employed executives of a corporation are there to take the powerless [[shareholder]]s’ [[Capital structure|capital]], and use it to [[virtue signal]] on [[Twitter]].
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The ugly face of shareholder capitalism, yesterday.
In which the curmudgeonly old sod puts the world to rights.
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Trigger warning for Millennials and Simon Sinek fans: this page was produced in a facility that also processes sarcasm. We cannot guarantee this page is entirely free from sarcasm.

Cancelled. A transparently bad idea, first formulated in 1987 by Michael Douglas[1] and now mercifully forgotten, having been devastated by Simon Sinek’s excoriating, timeless classic, The Infinite Game. It is now universally understood that the employed executives of a corporation are there to take the powerless shareholderscapital, and use it to virtue signal on Twitter.

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References

  1. Adam Smith: “Oi!”