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Originally Posted by Skybird
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Originally Posted by August
Perhaps that's because you seem to see the company and it's employees as two separate entities whereas they should all be on the same team.
A person who buys stock in a company does not lend it to an employer, he lends it to the company so they can use it to modernize and inprove their operation and products thereby keeping their people employed.
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Needless to say that I strongly disagree with that description. Sounds like the garden Eden of stockmarketing. But when the management of a company earns let'S say 1000 times as much money than it's factory employees, if the managers grant themselves a 30% increase in their already million-heavy incomes while at the same time they made decisons that brought their company into trouble so that employees get fired or have to accept loan-cuts, than I know what to make of that saying that they are all sitting in the same boat. Thinking of George Orwell: some are more equal than others. you base on the idealized theory, August. But it is an utopia only. Reality in 4 out of 5 companies (at least) looks far, far worse. |
If my theory is utopian Skybird then yours is myopic. 4 out of 5 companies (at least)? Really. If that were even close to being true there would be no stock market at all because investors would be throwing their own hard earned money away (at least) 4 out of 5 times.
Those who purchase stock in a company are looking to see the company grow so they can make a profit on the money they've invested. Allowing management or anyone else (including the workers) to run the company into the ground not only eliminates that profit but most, if not all, of their investment as well.