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Re:Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts by pfdietz on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:28AM (#46193346)
> At best, they are trading baseball cards with your corporate logo on them.

Those baseball cards also come with some rights. The people running the company have a fiduciary responsibility to them. They cannot, for example, use the company as a piggybank.

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Re:Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts by shadowgovt on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:03AM (#46193892)
But especially in the case of Google, those rights do not extend to setting the values, direction, or priorities of the company.

Nobody outside of the founders has enough of a controlling stake for that to be practically possible.

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