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You could make the same argument about the US government, and yet the "much less powerful and less wealthy" groups still have a ton of influence over it. You ar
by colpabar 3y ago
You could make the same argument about the US government, and yet the "much less powerful and less wealthy" groups still have a ton of influence over it. You are expecting it to make perfect logical sense, when it could all be very easily explained with one word: greed.
Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and stop believing that the ultra rich don't all work together to take more of your money, because they do, they have been forever, and they continue to do so forever.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoInfluence is not control. I will rephrase my comment. A simpler explanation for Microsoft’s actions is that the Microsoft board of directors and CEO wanted those actions to occur, for their own benefit. The whole hedge fund manager and Wall St boogeyman is nonsense. Who even is “Wall St”? Lots of people own shares of Microsoft. There are probably a bunch of people who influence Microsoft’s leaders more than some paper pushers in NYC.
- RandomLensman 3y agoHave you ever been in cost program discussions in the c-suite or with investors?