> In fact, I’ll just live off dividend income and try to get my new IT startup Fourplex off the ground
It’s easy to say no when the money is not needed.
It’s easy to say no when the money is not needed.
He should invest it in something else, that he believes in, so that any dividends are thus just.
He must rid himself of any remnants of Microsoft he helped build, therefore he still has a stake in MS through stock, which means he is still supporting surveillance capitalism.
Whether they are voting shares or not is irrelevant as he is still invested in the company.
As long as he is still invested in Microsoft he is still invested in surveillance capitalism, the very thing he is arguing against, and I am sure if he wants higher dividend payments, he would want the stock to go up.
Even if they are voting shares, he has no realistic meaningful power or say when a shareholder vote happens.
If I hated the company I worked with for over 10 years why would I still have shares in the company, I wouldn't want anything to do with it, this includes selling shares and wanting Microsoft's share price to go down.
Paying for food that Nestle makes supports their system too, for example.
Of course not. However having FU money relieves many of them. Taking a moral stance is far less impressive when nothing is on the line.