a short-term oversight is warranted to get a company reorganized (happens in bankruptcies, for example), but long-term oversight can be detrimental to the best

a short-term oversight is warranted to get a company reorganized (happens in bankruptcies, for example), but long-term oversight can be detrimental to the best interests of citizens by keeping companies overly constrained from feeling and responding to market conditions. and as others have noted, the return to citizens of such companies goes beyond its profits, so it's wise not to get to focused just on distributing those profits. beyond that, let's make sure the shareholders and executives feel the pain of their decisions, so they can adjust for risk in the future. let shareholders take a serious haircut (you can cram them down by creating a large pool of new, unallocated stock) and for execs, take back all incentives beyond a reasonable salary for the past 5 years. you can take that reclaimed incentive and form forward-going incentives the execs can work for again.