Odds are that you are a stockholder. Do you have a retirement? Or money in a bank?
Usually when people refer to the shareholders, they mean the 1% who own like half of all the wealth in the world.
I mean, I get what people mean when they say that, but it’s ill-informed. This from a year ago:
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high
Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans held just 1% of all stocks in the third quarter of 2023. -source
If you have to ask then no that should be all you think about and do.
I saw a disgusting / distopian YouTube ad where the slogan at the end was “we invest in people because people grow the economy”. How money-focused have you got to be to think that’s a good thing?
Too much I’d say. I’d prefer to provide zero value to them but haven’t quite figured out that lifestyle yet.
Work for yourself. Then you have no shareholders! Any value you provide goes to you!
No no no, you become your own shareholder which means you must become homeless to fuck the shareholder over. /s
You could work for the government, a cooperative or not work at all. If you work for a corporation then the art is to do as little actual work and get paid as much as possible. Always remember, what really matters is what your boss believes you provide in share holder value, not what you actually do.
Also lower consumption. Not as much to save the planet, although it helps, but mainly to built up a bit of wealth to be able to say fuck you to your boss, if need be.
Yeah I do all this already haha but getting to zero is quite the challenge in a consumer society. Still need to buy food, clothes, pay rent, etc.
