(03-29-2023, 12:23 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(03-29-2023, 10:48 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: What are you saying?  First you say, "Stakeholder capitalism is the new brand being worn by companies to give credibility to this idea."  Then you say, "This is not shareholder capitalism."  Which one is it?  You seem to be saying they are faking their stakeholder capitalism, then you say they are not practicing shareholder capitalism.  Which one do you think they are actually practicing?  

I'm just trying to understand what you are saying, because you seem to be contradicting yourself.

Stakeholder capitalism is fundamentally different than shareholder capitalism. Stakeholder brands itself a more caring form of shareholder capitalism, which it isn't. The reason they hide behind that "brand" is because people would object to corporations controlling our governments. How does that not make sense?

That's exactly what I have been saying.  Stakeholder capitalism is not real.  It's PR.  Corporations practice shareholder capitalism, by which I mean that they operate solely in the interests of the shareholders, and if they don't do that, the management will be looking for another job very quickly.  And that's as it should be.  

But I have another question for you.  Serious question, not an argument.  How would you rein in corporate influence over our government?

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