It depends if the shareholder is really investing in a company they believe can reliably generate profit or playing a game of poker with people’s lives as tokens.
most of them think like PE firms now, unfortunately. get in, mess everything up to extract as much profit, and get out before you end up holding the bag, or in prison.
In an healthy company with a long term outlook, increased productivity is used to increase revenue, not to cash in by reducing short term expenses.
In a healthy company not beholden to shareholders
It depends if the shareholder is really investing in a company they believe can reliably generate profit or playing a game of poker with people’s lives as tokens.
most of them think like PE firms now, unfortunately. get in, mess everything up to extract as much profit, and get out before you end up holding the bag, or in prison.