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Unless they purchased their stock from the company, stockholders are not investors in the company. They are purchasers of stock. The stock markets created a system whereby profit is all that matters. I don't think she is saying no profits. Adam Smith believed that profit was necessary to award innovation but that as a business or industry matured, profits should go down as wages increased. The capitalism that Smith envisioned would be fine.

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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