Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Shareholder primacy Date: 4 Dec 2025 18:24:38 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <10gekqm$39ian$3@dont-email.me> <10gh60o$83hq$4@dont-email.me> <8F_WQ.75605$TwW8.61488@fx13.iad> <10gislv$sv5d$1@dont-email.me> <10gjnqp$163o1$3@dont-email.me> <10gjpuv$163o1$5@dont-email.me> <10gju98$1934g$1@dont-email.me> <10gnj81$2l66v$2@dont-email.me> <10gqjh4$3pve8$1@dont-email.me> <10grui2$8csu$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 8YWYLN16dUvJ0ek1A2Fzhw6xDaUhl8rb3UYLvoRiGHADdlN7Mb Cancel-Lock: sha1:xIuHzYrcb3MAt0sKkWeoNAsXt1g= sha256:hcKsUHnnmQFd9kW4pg2KipTASCgje5nSFYNACFlE/OU= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78292 alt.comp.os.windows-11:27924 On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 12:24:34 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 04/12/2025 02:28, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:10:10 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote: >> >>> Did you mean "a business *had*"? Isn't this ("shareholder primacy") >>> pretty much of a misconception these days, except for a small number >>> of jurisdictions? >> >> How many corporate decisions are made with an eye to Wall Street and >> improving the stock price? How many disasters have there been recently >> where a corporation decided social justice was their concern? >> > That depends entirely on the company and its state of being. > People who haven't been around listed boards do not really understand... > > Today the prime example is of Boeing whose attempts to deliver profit > have resulted in a quality drop that is likely to put them out of > business. https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron- announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business Translation: screw the consumers that have been buying Crucial RAM; thar's money in them thar AI hills! If the AI balloon bursts, like it has a history of doing, there will be a lot of people in deep shit. Unfortunately the general public will be swimming around in the cesspool too.