The ceo isn't really in control. The board of directors is. And even they are subject to "democratic" elections by the shareholders. Just happens to be the same people on the board who own a large portion of the shares, in most cases.
Just thinking.. isn't capitalism neat?
I'm not defending our shittacular healthcare, but Canada has about 40 million people while the US has about 341 million. Slight difference in scale.
Proceeds to defend thing you're "not defending"...
This is also referencing only one health insurance company whereas under single-payer healthcare there would be many made irrelevant, I think the comparison is made just to add that sort of perspective
Billion in value
What value? Actual money or stock? Because stock doesn't really reflect anything about the state of the company, and this drop in stock price mean absolutely nothing if they don't change the practice or the government doesn't pass a new law. It's just stock owner losing money because some fuck want to do a short selling.
Do we learn nothing from Gamestop?
Somehow this does not surprise me at all.
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