*** Quoting John Rambo from a message to Ryan Bagueros ***
JR>  If you don't like something a corporation is doing, you can refuse 
JR> to buy their product, or you can buy a share of stock & try to get it 
JR> to "act" differently. Corporations try to get tax breaks & mass 
JR> market their products to enrich the shareholders.  If they didn't, 
JR> shareholders would sell, and they would eventually disappear.  Why do 
JR> so many people refuse to see a corporation for what it is ... a group 
JR> composed of many individual shareholders, not a melevolent entity??
Now that is one of the most naive perspectives of what a corporation is that 
I've ever heard. If you check your economics textbook, you would be right. If 
you take a look out your window at reality, there's a whole 'nother story. 
Let's say I follow your advice. I save for a MONTH to purchase, say, 5 shares 
of Microsoft. How soon do you think I'll be invited to offer my opinion on 
their company? How soon do you think my opinion will make a difference? Now, 
consider Joe Rich who saves for one DAY and buys 25% of Microsoft's stock. 
How 
soon do you think HIS opinion will matter? Boycotting and investing are 
perhaps
the two most benign forms of social/political change that I've EVER heard. 
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