Right now the shareholders collectively own something worth 10 billion dollars. That's quite a bit of money. Giving it away to the users would make them measurably worse off.
New Belgium was advised by Eureka Capital Markets, a middle market investment-banking firm:
http://www.newbelgium.com/community/Blog/new-belgium-brewing...
You must be new on the internet.
There is a rich corpus on this question that you are needlessly simplifying [1]. TL; DR Boards have a measurable purpose.
In fact it probably siphons off the energy from a movement that needs to learn not to create value in an institution driven by profit instead of societal betterment.
The proposal also suffers from the delusion of many who believe tweeting is equivalent to actually working to make the world a better place. Tweeting is more like self-congratulatory marketing that has the addictive property of also assuaging one's guilt for treating others poorly in real life.
Indeed. Creating a twitter-like platform is not particularly difficult, and it is therefore feasible for group of people to chose to build one with a structure involving a degree of user control, and see if it flies.
lol. Good luck in life, you're going to need it!
Not really. Happens often enough there's a name for it. It's called a hostile takeover.
Not that this effort will be successful, but it does happen.
I don't think OP meant people literally walk into the offices of the BOD members and tell them to go fuck themselves.