a sad reality of corporations optimizing for investor returns: the people who work on and buy the product suffer. Good employees are fired, and useful products

a sad reality of corporations optimizing for investor returns: the people who work on and buy the product suffer. Good employees are fired, and useful products are shut down. Speaking generally: Public companies live in a state of pressure to exploit everything possible to the benefit of shareholders and execs. It's increasingly difficult to see how benefiting this small group outweighs the massive and ceaseless costs to society as a whole.