But their goals must align with the shareholders; they must extract maximum value. Or at least be able to explain why they think their actions would be in alignment with that goal. All other stakeholders (workers, customers, business partners, the country, the environment) can go fuck themselves if they find themselves on the opposite side of “value.”

Give a corporation the choice between “continue making beaucoup bucks with this new product” vs “don’t poison literally everyone for all foreseeable generations” and guess what, they’ll choose money. Thanks DuPont.