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Every company should be owned by its employees (www.elysian.press)

submitted 4 months ago by Melvin_Ferd to c/general

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Insurance FTW; investors defeat the whole purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why do investors defeat the whole purpose? @general

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do investors not own part of the company? They can hold the company hostage in exchange for their capital, even if they can't vote.

btw you seem to be outputting [@general](https://lemmy.world/c/general) at the bottom of your posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Can you give an example in the case where investors hold non-voting preferred shares?

I'm not sure how cross posting works from Mastodon to Lemmy. I thought I had to do that to get boosted by the group