To be honest, though, I am finding it harder to sympathize with people who hold shares in a company. Publicly traded companies are everything wrong with the modern-day economy.
It used to be that you work for a place long enough and they pay out a pension when you retired. Now, your retirement comes from a 401k, the value of which is determined by how successfully whatever company you (or rather, your employer) trusts with your money, and then they choose who to invest in regardless of ethics or client preferences. And of course they have to skim enough off the top to pay for their own operations as well.
The entire system is just grift after grift. It doesn’t even seem worth it anymore after we’ve now hit several major economic slumps within just the past 15 years, coupled with the occasional ponzi scheme sprinkled here and there.