Grab quickly
And in the meantime shareholder capitalism is doing what shareholder capitalism does best â behaving as though the world might end after the next reporting period, so grab whatever you can as quickly as you can.
This unrelenting commitment to shareholder capitalism involves dishing out generous share-based awards to a select handful of employees and cutting all other costs wherever possible. It captures and redefines the notion of âessential workerâ from one who risks their life and livelihood in order to provide services at the frontline of the pandemic to an executive with access to the board.
From the very start the idea that âweâre all in this togetherâ sounded more jingoistic than persuasive; rather like the World War II slogans designed to discourage the mass of the population from bailing on their leaders.