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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by bluGill on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:20PM (#14570226)
You are the investor causing the pathological behavior. A very large part of wall street is investors like you that just have a little bit in their retirement accounts.

Do you vote the proxy for all the funds in your 401k? Do you understand how your vote affects the above - it all does.

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by michel-slm on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:13PM (#14571358)
there's a way to be an ethical investor - pick a 401(k) fund that invests in ethical businesses (according to whatever ethical standard you hold).

This might not be an option for everyone, of course.

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by s73ver on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:44PM (#14570443)
Wrong. I am not telling any company to treat their employees like crap to squeeze an extra penny of profit out of them.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by bluGill on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:49PM (#14571120)
But you are because you own the fund that in turns owns the company.

It might not be your intent, and you might not have enough of a vote to stop it, but you are still doing it. (sort of like Americans opposed to the current foreign policy are still at fault for it)

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by emodendroket on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:01PM (#14572199)
How am I at fault for a foreign policy if I voted for its antithesis (or, perhaps more likely, nobody with that position stood for election)?
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by s73ver on Friday June 16, 2017 @03:20PM (#14571905)
No. I reject your idea in its entirety.