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CMV: Employees and customers need to have a say in how businesses are run.

A shareholder in a company usually doesn't care how the company generates profit; all that matters is that the share price goes up and the dividends arrive on time. Whereas the employees care about good working conditions, good pay, and good benefits; the overall profitability of a company usually isn't a concern. Customers care about good products and good services offered at a fair price. 

Of course, these are blanket statements which do not apply to every person, but I believe that these statements are generally true over the human population.

You will get business owners who genuinely care about the wellbeing of their employees, care that they make a good product, and want to do good for the world (e.g. donating profits to alleviate poverty, stop a disease, save the environment, etc). I've found this to be particularly true among small business owners, who personally know their employees and customers. Unfortunately, I think that owners that care are the exception, not the rule, most just want the money.

Occasionally, I have seen a truly passionate employee who wants their company to be the best company ever, to make lots of money while providing value to the community and world. But these employees are few and far between. And there are customers who really care about avoiding companies that treat their employees poorly, use sweatshop labor, mistreat animals, destroy the environment, etc. But most are really just looking for good deal.

So, in the model where shareholders alone get to decide how a company behaves, there is an incentive to make money with little regard for the employees or customers. If we, as a society, want better working conditions, better pay, and better products and services at lower cost, we need to involve employees and customers in the corporate decision making process.

Employees and customers are already involved to an extent. Workers can unionize and customers can choose to not buy from a particular company, but these are faulty. Not all industries are unionized, and the most vulnerable (people exploited in sweatshops) have absolutely no control over their working conditions. And there are limits to what unions can do (e.g. they can't demand that a CEO take a pay cut because of bad decisions which hurt workers, whereas the owners of a company could demand such a thing). And customers who would like to take a stand against a company might not have the option to do so. If there is a de facto monopoly or the customer is simply too poor to be able to afford an alternative, then the customer might be boxed into buying overpriced garbage from a company that is horrible to their workers and the environment, thereby implicitly endorsing the company's behavior.

Employees and customers need to have a say in how businesses are run, and the current model for involving them in the decision making process works far less than 100% of the time. I see nothing wrong with companies wanting to make enormous piles of money, but personally, I would also like to see a world in which decently priced products and services are of exceptional quality, the workers producing the products and services are treated well and paid well, and at least some of the company's profits go to making the world a better place. And I believe that giving owners, employees, and customers each a 1/3 vote in how a company is run to be a good start toward this better world.

Edit: If you are going to claim that customers can influence companies through their purchasing power, please also describe how a customer may be able to influence a company with a monopoly.
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The thing with customers is that what customers say they want, and what they really want, are often very different. Most customers, they say they care about value (quality/cost), some claim to just care about quality. But when the quality product costs twice as much, and will last for four times longer, winning on both value and quality, many of them will see the price tag, and go straight for the cheapest option... They want your company to be green, but they wont pay for it. They want your company to pay workers a living wage, but they wont pay for it.

Customers very much do have a say in how businesses are run, but it isn't based on their virtue signalling on Facebook and Twitter, it is based on how they actually spend their money.