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In which the curmudgeonly old sod puts the world to rights.

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Cancelled. A transparently bad idea, first formulated in 1987 by Michael Douglas^[1] and now mercifully forgotten. It is now universally understood that the employed executives of a corporation are there to take the powerless shareholders’ capital, and use it to virtue signal on Twitter.

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-}}Cancelled.  A transparently bad idea, first formulated in 1987 by [[Wall Street|Michael Douglas]] and now mercifully forgotten.<ref>[[Adam Smith]]: “Oi!”</ref> 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. 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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