so what? companies run on command and control, as much as they try to soften that image. how did the employees hating the product affect their work? I agree work can be better with passionate and invested workers doing it, but workers disinterest or disdain for the product of their work is the norm when they have essentially no ownership over it. they're not a bunch of children who will spin the hamster wheel faster for their boss when it's hillary clinton on their work

by essentially no ownership what I mean is that the amount of ownership granted to workers via equity is negotiated as part of overall compensation in wage labor market (market means it's as low as each company can competitively get away with, so just saying the share exists does not mean it's of the same class), the majority ownership is elsewhere and there are a lot of non-workers who need to get rich off their work. commenting that ESOPs give workers and their owners the same sense of stakeholder ownership is as interesting as saying america has a universally flat ownership class structure because everyone can buy a share on the market