Divest or Decay: Stop Enriching Wall Street, Reinvest In US

A chance meeting with the owners of two local small businesses reveals the exigent nature of empowering our community instead of enriching the rich... This is the reason why I am so staunchly opposed to corporations. Do you think McDonald’s or Starbucks would ever do something like this? Of course not; the reason d’être of corporations is to maximize profits first, last and always. The minute a privately held company goes “public”, gets listed on Wall Street and issues shares to equity holders is the minute that company loses its soul and becomes a virus of this earth. This is not hyperbole... by Teodrose Fikre