Perhaps it's only obvious to me, but unless a corporation has great products that customers want to buy, the long-term shareholder value can only fall. Customer

Perhaps it's only obvious to me, but unless a corporation has great products that customers want to buy, the long-term shareholder value can only fall. Customers buying a corporation's products is a prerequisite to profits at said corporation. Isn't that what shareholders want? If a company goes bankrupt, pays penalties, has bad press, etc because executives can't take a long-term view, how is that good for shareholders?