(03-29-2023, 01:16 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(03-29-2023, 12:43 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: 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?

I've told you. Tether income. The elite have far too much political capital. Outside of that, transparency and accountability have to come back. We need to take money out of politics (thanks op) and get our politicians working for us. This doesn't happen when none of them go to jail, or when we bail out failures, or allow public secret meetings in which these people gather and plan their futures.

We are still saying different things, thou. Stakeholder capitalism IS real in that they don't want to be beholden to their shareholders anymore, but they can't just say that, so they dress it up. They are truly moving away from the shareholder model in an attempt to consolidate their power and better position themselves in the future, even if that means their shareholders take losses. They are literally willing to sacrifice their shareholders so that they can retain their power as a new, global government emerges. Stakeholder capitalism is global government run by corporations.