I want to know what all you people do for a living where only a small minority of evil people own any stock. It is my experience that most employees of corporations are just regular people. Some are nice, some are jerks.
I don’t buy into this “nobility of the working class” bullshit. If “Joe Sixpack” suddenly struck it rich, you think he’s going to skip through the land in his pickup doing good deeds for all mankind?
You people have no understanding of business. A company is not a charity. It is a machine designed to make money for its owners. That’s it. You like seeing your 401k increase (assuming that you have one), well how do you think that happens?
msmith537 I have asked the same question IRL in the past, and I am often told that while, sure there are people that own a few stocks, the vast majority of stocks are owned by the board or CEO or whatever. Total, utter, bullshit. When I ask these same people what they think orginizations like pension funds invest in, or where their parents’ 401K benefits come from I just get blank stares, or they think the money is in a savings account. Amazing.
Agreed 100% My dealings with Qwest were pure unadulturated hell. When I read that they were getting investigated by the FCC or SEC or whoever it was, I laughed long and hard.
Since I switched to AT&T, I haven’t had problem one.