Interesting, i just do not get how someone can defend those companies behaving like a$$holes and giving nothing back to the nation who makes them and their earnings possible. Including the managers' own education which was paid by whom ?
Here in Germany stocks rise according to how much workers are being fired, and as long as that works there will be growing unemployment numbers. Statistics of unemployment in German are completely faked, they took out all under 20 (they are in education) and over 45 (they will not get a job anymore anyway). So unemployment really is a at real 28 %, instead of a lied 7.
And firing even good and valuable workers for rising stocks, it is of no concern how the company will look in 4 years, because as managers say "Boy do you think i'll be still here then ?"
A side effct of the growing fury among the less paid already leads to millionaires being willing to pay a lot more taxes just to shut them up and calm society. It just has become too obvious