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That's because FT had the government as their shareholder and they were trying to protect their investment.

That's one of the beautiful things about shareholder democracy in liquid, public markets - exit is always an easy option.

With a shareholder system, home owners also have a dividend paying share in the city government.

Monty was perfectly happy to take a billion dollars of Sun's shareholder's money for his company.

The dual class share structure ensures he is able to ignore shareholder concerns and pressure that most other CEOs simply cannot.

Indeed, Google isn't directly affected by a drop in stock price; but as a Google shareholder, I am.

It would seem utterly unprofessional, and potentially detrimental to shareholder interest, for them to not also keep track of timings and typing rhythms.

Tax reasons and complications with having >500 shareholders (and shareholder information, etc.

Publicly traded comapanies become more about short-term shareholder returns than anything else.

Increasing shareholder value at all costs and similar is the mantra.

> That's because FT had the government as their shareholder and they were trying to protect their investment.

Thus, the owner-shareholder will also gain money from new construction.

So having shareholder support when the claim against you is "they took over the company by sneakily getting shareholder control" is irrelevant.

It's fine for well-funded entities to waste money on boondoggles (well, not really, but I was not a shareholder, and Google is free to "experiment" for any reason it pleases).