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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by tepidandroid on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @01:56PM (#17768186)
Understood. IMO, the argument is moot though because at the end of the day, the sole determinant of valuation is what someone else is willing to pay. A highly connected CEO with many high powered relationships is valued very highly because as it turns out, those are the things needed for a corporation to succeed.
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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by joel_ms on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:31AM (#17774029)
When those highly connected CEOs sit on the boards of eachothers companies and determine eachother's sallaries, "what someone else is willing to pay" is not an independent variable.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by craftyguy on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @04:12PM (#17769326)
A corporation needs MUCH more than the CEO's relationship with his/her friends/connections to succeed.
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