Yep, "shareholder value" can be taken to mean all kinds of things-- long and short term. The CEO may very well be able to make a case for higher wage workers e

Yep, "shareholder value" can be taken to mean all kinds of things-- long and short term. The CEO may very well be able to make a case for higher wage workers even in the "greed-above-all" context of shareholders. FWIW, 70K "min wage" might not mean so much if most employees are line workers and there are contractors for the support jobs (eg IT-dept, janitorial, secretarial, etc).