How Investing Turns Nice People Into Psychopaths - The Atlantic

What does owning stock do to our brains?

The evidence suggests that corporations might encourage people to think and act more anti-socially. What does owning stock do to our brains? Betacam-SP/Shutterstock It's conventional wisdom in business circles today that corporate directors should "maximize shareholder value." Corporations supposedly exist to serve shareholders' interests, and not (or at least, not directly) those of executives, employees, customers, or the community. However, this shareholder-value dogma begs a fundamental question. What, exactly, do shareholders value? Most shareholder-value advocates assume that shareholder

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