> Intel’s leadership has decided that the dividend is more important than employee retention That's what happens when you're a publicly traded company? Your pr

> Intel’s leadership has decided that the dividend is more important than employee retention That's what happens when you're a publicly traded company? Your primary role once you're listed is to make your stockholders money, and if you don't, your stockholders will vote to replace the people at the top refusing to focus on dividends. You can have all the morals and ethics and good intentions and those amount to a sum total of zero after IPO, because unless you bought enough of your own stock to retain majority control, you no longer own the ship, you only get to set the course and steer it, and if you don't do a good enough job at that, the ship owners will have you replaced. It's a shit system, but that's the system.