Outraged by CEO salaries? It was your shares that approved them
by David Pitt-Watson from Environment | The Guardian on (#TYKH)
There is little recognition of the pressure that we, the citizen investors, can put on companies to act more socially responsibly
People often talk of capitalism, and of plans to reform or replace it. But we seldom ask who are the capitalists, on whose behalf the system is supposedly run.
If we did, the answer might surprise us. I would bet that most of the people reading this article who are over 30 also ultimately own shares in the giant transnational companies that sit at the heart of the capitalist system.
