Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders

Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by philipodonnell on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:39PM (#17767404)

> Finally, and I hate to bring this up, but if you don't like it, then quit. That's what I did to start a business.

Technology workers who are able to start their own contracting company are a tiny minority of the employed population. To claim everyone has this option and thus should not attempt to affect change at their employer or exercise their power to vote for representatives who enact worker-friendly policies, is naive at best and insulting at worst.

IMHO, this perspective is everything that's wrong with the Silicon Valley mindset. I got mine so f* you if you can't do exactly the same thing as I did.

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by MR4D on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:54PM (#17767558)

I don't think you read my post, because I didn't say anything that you proposed I did:

1 - I live in Texas, not Silicon Valley; 2 - I don't work in technology; 3 - I'm not a contracting company.

Finally, if you read at all what I said with any kind of open mind, then you'd have noticed how hard I said it is. But people rule out the option without really looking at it.

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