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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by neilv on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:20PM (#19686146)
Regarding S&P499: as soon as you exclude one company, you're probably going to want to exclude a whole lot more.

Read down the list, and it's "this company set back technology and grew by consistently backstabbing partners and customers alike... this company set back the country by taking billions of dollars and then didn't build the infrastructure the fees were for... these companies grew by secretly mass-spying on everyone in ways that were already illegal in other modalities... this company killed all those people through arguably criminal negligence, and walked away..."

(I'm a big proponent of passive index investing, and I don't mean to discourage it. Bogle-style US total-market or S&P 500, balanced with Barclay's US bond index. All the better that it's passive, so you're reminded less of how sausage is made, while you try to make sure you won't retire as a homeless street person.)

Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by Agathos on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:46PM (#19686748)
For that reason I'd want a really simple rule, such as "allows unprivileged shareholders real voting control." Except the S&P 500 has actually been enforcing that rule since 2017. Google and Facebook are grandfathered in, though.

https://www.dividend.com/news/2017/11/03/companies-multiple-...