• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Does selling their stock really do anything? All the big investment firms will still buy these up for their mutual funds. Unless everyone agrees not to buy their stock, I don’t see how this helps. And even then, their stock would be so cheap they could just buy it back themselves and go private right?

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      Does selling their stock really do anything? All the big investment firms will still buy these up for their mutual funds. Unless everyone agrees not to buy their stock, I don’t see how this helps. And even then, their stock would be so cheap they could just buy it back themselves and go private right?

      Its what forced South Africa to break up their apartheid state. Yeah, it really actually works and its one of the only things that has historically been demonstrated to work.

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      Green is the only thing capitalists see and will respond to. Good number going down is the only truly bad thing in their world.