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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

In the mid-70s companies moved towards aligning executive carder with shareholders and motivating them through getting paid by shares. We saw a very explicit version of this with a company called 3G who are basically corporate raiders, activist investors. They'd accumulated a 10 billion fund and they took out Burger King, Anhoyza Bush, Kraft and then they took out Heinz and then they merged Kraft and Heinz. Unilever were able to see off Kraft Heinz and Kraft Heinz virtually kind of went backwards massively in their failed takeover bid. But it was that battle for the soul. You know, like what really matters in the corporate world is cash the only thing that

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