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I am a shareholder (of Airbus, I'd never hold Boeing). As a shareholder, I don't want to be dubed by a pump and dump orchastrated by a CEO to appear like a genius, get a nice payout and jump ship before the stock tanks, and I am left holding a now vastly depreciated share. Unless you are friends with the top execs you won't ever know when to buy and sell and in any case I am not into trading.

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I think shareholders need more rights. A lot of the bullshit that is currently happening only makes sense because shareholders aren't actually in control of the companies they own.

Think about this, as a shareholder in Airbus, how were you involved in the selection of the current CEO?

We agree on that one. It goes along my top comment where I call for more democratic oversight of corporations. I think they are internally too corrupt and the top execs run wild doing whatever they want.

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