Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren's Big Break From 30 Years Of Pro-Corporate Trade Policy [View all]PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)and that government should merely 'get out of the way.'
Because of the primacy of the shareholder doctrine, which holds that CEOs and other C-Suite people are ONLY responsible for increasing shareholder earnings, greed runs rampant through the whole thing, unchecked by any beneficent force.
If we are going to cure the diseased root of the problem, we will dilute the fiduciary responsibility of C-Suite officers in publicly held companies to take into account not only shareholders, but the needs of workers, consumers and the environment.
What's that?
You mean Warren is ahead of us on this one? You mean her 'Accountable Capitalism Act,' introduced in August of 2018 does just that?
Wow! That Warren is really something.
She'd be a GREAT president.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden