[maerF0x0]

As I see it you've laid out a whole comedy of errors made in the US.

> a company might have outside of those to shareholders.

Leadership must do this by law. Fix the laws to fix the behavior. How? I'd say we need to fix corporate governance issues (shareholders need more rights to pay leadership less). Share buy backs need to be fixed, right now a leader can take investors dividends/profit and use it to reduce the outstanding shares, making their options in the money. Companies need to be barred from buying back their own shares and should be required to distribute _all_ profit back to the investors. They can issue shares if they want more capital to "reinvest", i dont think we'll overflow int64s for share counts xD.

> pay off their debts

Too many people are buried in consumer debt (not asset/school debt). They've made themselves vulnerable by keeping up with the times / jones / hedonic treadmill.

> Those at the top are the ones making the rules,

We (the people) voted for citizens united, it has to go. I'd love to see Andrew yang's[1] idea of giving every voter $5 to $25 as a political campaign funding. It would easily drown out the corporate lobby profitability. America is very corrupt the past 15+ years with interest group lobby, politician insider trading etc.