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Dual-class voting has become popular because all the current founders grew up on stories of apple being taken from Jobs and want to avoid the same fate. In addition activist investors are a lot more common today than 20-30 years ago.

Dual class can, and often leads to bad corporate governance over the long term. Some stock indexes exclude or limit them. S&P Dow Jones for example.

This is complex issue. More discussion: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/08/22/dual-class-index-...

I'm there with you, however these [0] are the consequences of not having dual class voting structure.

[0] https://www.axios.com/starboard-value-box-shareholder-activi...

You're not a fan of dual voting classes? Then I assume you're not investing in We when they IPO.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-11/wework-gov...

>Then I assume you're not investing in We when they IPO.

Is anyone...?

People ultimately will despite all the press, it seems inevitable.