I'm talking about the shareholders who choose the board, not the board itself. Institutional investors change their holdings all the time. And many of them are

I'm talking about the shareholders who choose the board, not the board itself. Institutional investors change their holdings all the time. And many of them are controlled by people I believe should never see the outside of a prison. (And even the ones that aren't, might be tomorrow!) So again, I ask, why is it better to risk my money in investments this ever-changing cast of characters can control, rather than companies like Google?