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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. 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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Revision as of 10:47, 11 February 2023


Gordon Gekko.png
The ugly face of shareholder capitalism, yesterday.


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 shareholderscapital, and use it to virtue signal on Twitter.

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  1. Adam Smith: “Oi!”