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yummyfajitas on June 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: No Time to Be Nice at Work

No, I'm suggesting shareholders are the real victim. They are the ones paying agents to maximize their wealth while those agents pursue their own agendas instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

Sideloader on June 22, 2015 [–]

>They are the ones paying agents to maximize their wealth while those agents pursue their own agendas instead.

I am a secret agent not just any agent...and I pursue my own agenda instead. lol

Dude, life is not an economics textbook. Have you actually worked in the real world with real people?

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