Shareholder capitalism

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Cancelled. A transparently bad idea, first formulated in 1987 by Michael Douglas 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 shareholders’ capital, and use it to virtue signal on Twitter.

See also

• Stakeholder capitalism
• The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek’s feeble attack on it
• Shareholder
• Stakeholder