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> fiduciary obligation to maximize shareholder profits.

This is kind of true, but not really.

To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html




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