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> If my interests align with theirs, then I also trust them to act in my interests. Your interest would have to be making them money, so you would have to be a
by choward 7y ago
> If my interests align with theirs, then I also trust them to act in my interests.
Your interest would have to be making them money, so you would have to be a shareholder. Otherwise there is a 0% chance your interests will align with their interests.
- paulddraper 7y agoFor our interests to align 100% always, yes, I would have to be a shareholder. But if a business provides, say an online marketplace and I am a seller, then we do in fact have some interests in common: we both want me to sell successfully. And insofar as that goes, we are aligned. If a business benefits financially from manufacturing environmentally harmful products, and I care about the environment, then I have zero expectation that I should trust them to act how I would like.
- perl4ever 7y agoBeing a shareholder of a company doesn't mean your interests align any more than being an employee, and probably less. If you benefit from a company, as an employee, shareholder, customer, or whatever, that doesn't mean that it's in your interest for them to damage the rest of society. If you have 100 shares of XYZ company, do you want them to be permitted to pollute the river where you live in order to get 0.02% more in dividends per year? Of course not. Neither do you want them to sabotage other companies that you might interact with, or the government that everyone relies on.