As a member of society, a lot of things in your life should be about society. And none of those things is shareholder value.

In fact, most people would have a version of this pyramid in order of importance:

1. Personal mental and physical well-being and the same for your loved ones

2. Healthy and functioning society and robust social safety nets, e.g retirement, paid leave, social housing, public transport etc

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1337. The composition of sand on Mars

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4206919111337. Shareholder value

Who claimed that?

> Generating shareholder value is very important for the well-being of society!

Should I be worried about the shareholders? While we are it, how about also removing the few environmental regulations and worker protection laws we still have, just so the poor poor shareholders can buy another yacht? /s

"Stonks go up" is not a proxy for success. Success is when pharma executives don't tremble like the villains they are from hearing the name of Mario's little brother. Success is when normal people get from the social contract at least as much as they put in. If we, the people, get less than from the social contract that we put in, as we nowadays observe, I can guarantee you we will break down the social contract, and the ones having most to lose from that are your precious stakeholders.