[oincobx]

>>>this is a way for CEOs to make a cheap profit.

Isn’t the role of the CEO to maximize shareholder value? Or are folks here suggesting that these firms need to get woke and consider other stakeholders like their employees and the communities in which they operate?

[SteveH]

> Isn’t the role of the CEO to maximize shareholder value?

Yes

> Or are folks here suggesting that these firms need to get woke
> and consider other stakeholders like their employees and the
> communities in which they operate?

‘Get woke’ sounds like an obnoxious, non-grammatical ebonics term to me. End of my consideration of it.

I think rather in demand and supply terms, that the fundamental assumption of demand and supply theory is that it is a closed system, meaning that the pool of consumers is (more or less) the pool of workers. If that is broken, then anything derived from the theory of demand and supply is broken.

I might be missing something (what?).

[central_va]

Or are folks here suggesting that these firms need to get woke and consider other stakeholders like their employees and the communities in which they operate?

It is up to us to elect a party that promotes American labor and prosperity FOR ALL. Right now this thread proves that Republicans and Democrats are in agreement promoting and profiting from strip mining US labor and resources. How does it feel to be in "unanimous consent" with the Democrat party? Feel good does it?