i don't think you can look at a firm like Boeing, for example, and conclude they were just profit-maxing and given what expertise they had on hand, making planes was the best opportunity. they had a passion for engineering and building planes to which profit maximization was subsidiary!
it's not so hard. just fail to support or say nice things about President Trump. i mean, you and i have executed none of our critics, and yet we've achieved the credential. (tbf, all the wars we've personally prosecuted have been genocidal.)
i guess for the same reason i favor it in other kinds of polities, i'm glad boards are often elected by cumulative voting to enable some minority interest representation . www.investor.gov/introduction... 1/
i agree that means mischief is sometimes represented on the board. it is the job of the majority to stand up to it. /fin
exactly.
majority shareholders can't engineer payouts to themselves that exclude minority shareholders. minority shareholders can seek and gain representation on the board. 1/
but the board controls the firm, answering in the majority to majority shareholders, and courts must not impose a least-common-denominator profit-maximization interest on behalf of minority shareholders. /fin
minority shareholders have a right to equitable treatment ("equity!"), but not to demanding the firm be run in favor of least-common-denominator interest.
the accusation is always a confession. it is the people who are currently working to occupy and conquer us that are complaining about a mythical occupation they are countering.
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not even. mission-driven capitalism. a firm is a human organization to accomplish something. recruiting and appeasing all stakeholders, generating cash flow sufficient ti pay the bills, these are *constraints* a firm faces, not the goal or function or purpose of the firm.
the people who wanted "everything run like a business" also transformed how businesses were run, and it broke those too. (they transformed businesses into the idiot share-price maximizers of pathetically stylized economic models, which is not how most businesses actually functioned before 1970!)
i don't think the median US voter actually thinks very much at all on the subject.
maybe some of these firms prefer to file their own briefs, which would be great. but those that neither file nor sign on — and of course those that openly capitulate — should be shunned forever. clients of collaborationist firms as well.
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this is an administration that "reforms" imperfect but somewhat functional institutions into cargo-cultish mimics of what those institutions once were. www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-was...
Influencer Paid by Russia Added to White House Press Pool
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"I was proud to reintroduce…the No Dollars for Dictators Act to ensure tax dollars aren't being funneled…to dictators, terrorists and other evil regimes." ~Florida Senator Rick Scott, from his e-mail newsletter. I guess he really does believe in tax cuts.
don’t worry elon will send a sub.
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it’s the tautology, stupid.
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we should form a group called the “real americans” and raise huge sums for ad campaigns throughout the free world apologizing for our country’s behavior under possession, thanking them for staying sane and free, praying we will soon rejoin them after a difficult exorcism. ht @williamcb.bsky.social
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you lace the product with arsenic, and all of a sudden…
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Venezuela has genuinely been a pretty horrific place for people. And now the US is like, hold my beer. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... ht @jeffstein.bsky.social
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my alma mater was once as close to a utopian community of playful minds as has existed in this country. i am so sad and ashamed by what it has become, so angry at the moral pygmies so raucously undoing it. #NewCollege
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they pin a little zig-zagging arrow going down and to the right to the breasts of shorts.