Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders

Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by mamon on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:21AM (#17766708)

Workers have a right to get paid for their work, but that’s pretty much it. They don’t have a right to influence company policies because they do not own it. Asking workers for their opinion is just politeness, but not something company necessarily has to do.

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by genericid on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:34AM (#17766849)

By that logic, a monarch's subjects did not have a right to influence kingdom policies because they did not own it.

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by jlawson on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:31PM (#17767317)

A monarch's subjects don't choose to become subjects and they typically can't leave. Workers can choose from many different employers, or become self employed.

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by genericid on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:34PM (#17767350)

So you support a dictatorship as long as it permits emigration? Not that monarchies actually had anything to do with that, serfdom was abolished in most places long before them.

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by prolikewh0a on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:24PM (#17767257)

Get rid of the workers and what do you have? A failed company. The workers are the most important part and without them the business cannot survive. The most important part of the business should have a say in the business.

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by frockington on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @01:36PM (#17767984)

You would need to replace the disgruntled opinionated workers with workers who were happy with their job. Its a tiny bit more effort but in the end the result would be the same

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