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The current obsession that companies exist solely for making money for shareholders is an historical aberration. If that's still the common view in a hundred ye
by EliRivers 8y ago
The current obsession that companies exist solely for making money for shareholders is an historical aberration. If that's still the common view in a hundred years or so, it will carry more weight.
- ekianjo 8y ago> The current obsession that companies exist solely for making money for shareholders Making money for shareholders is an instrument to secure long term/regular investment. It's not the "end goal", and almost no company's mission is "to make money". Money is just the blood stream that enables everything else.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> It's not the "end goal", and almost no company's mission is "to make money". Sure seems that way, when every decision is optimized towards making money short-term. I think the more correct model of most companies would be money-focused entities that through path dependence ended up in the market sector they're in. That is, the actual thing they're doing is an artifact of history and is abstracted away for actual operations.
- EliRivers 8y agoYet there is a common belief that companies are legally obliged to make enriching shareholders their only priority.