We really need to rethink the whole issue of 'ownership' and its rewards concerning stocks of corporations. Owning stocks is not ownership of the enterprise in any meaningful sense of the word, but it is used to justify anything up to and including murder for the sake of more profit, thus higher share prices: 'the owners required us to do it'.

A start would be to ban all people in senior management positions from owning stocks of the business in which they are employed. That could not be a more blatant conflict of interest--not to mention that it is metaphysically impossible for them to acquire or sell stocks of the corporation without the influence of 'inside information', which is explicitly illegal.