Vanishing the People's Wealth to Make the Bosses Richer

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/12/vanishing-the-peoples-wealth-to-make-the-bosses-richer/
Date Written:  2016-07-12
Publisher:  Counter Punch
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19752

Imagine you are a shareholder in a big company and the top executives are sitting on huge amounts of cash and are not interested in putting it to work through productive capital investments, research and development, reducing company debt or paying employees a higher wage. What would you want done about it? Since you and other shareholders are the owners of the company, you'd likely say "give us back our money in cash dividends."