Blackrock has been pushing for Diversity and Climate change initiatives through shareholder proposals. However Blackrock, through iShares and other ETF/Index products, does not in fact own any of the shares that they vote, as these shares are owned by clients of the firm that own products produced by Blackrock. Yet they vote the shares and thus exert a significant amount of control and determination over publicly traded companies that do not have a majority shareholder (meaning a huge amount of the publicly traded businesses out there)

Berkshire Hathaway was able to fend off Blackrock, but many companies were not and have not been able to and will eventually succumb or be subsumed to the whims of these unelected controllers in a distant office far, far away from the headquarters and communities that are affected by these shareholder votes and proposals.

This behavior also goes on with state run California Pension Funds (CALPERS and CALSTRS) as well as endowment funds of elite universities such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

This behavior has created an unelected (by shareholder laws) shadow superstructure of political ideology in the private sphere, which ultimately leaks out into and influences social behavior (advertising, products, media type and of course campaign contributions to politicians, foundations and causes) which inevitably impacts the way our government is run.

This is one of the purest most essential perversions of the capitalistic structure of society as it produces disintermediation between ownership and voting capability, creating aggregated power in the hands of few individuals who through undemocratic means, control the fate of an enormous amount of our nations productive capacity and capital. Worse still; this behavior is also difficult to curtail given the substantial protections afforded by the United States to the private sector. If explained using a biological framework, this behavior is cancerous.

As a result of this disintermediation, Blackrock and ideologically influenced entities like it (Pension Funds, Endowment funds of universities) wields a disproportionate power relative to actual economic ownership and has been aggressively using their power to push for increasingly liberal policies across the corporate landscape.

This type of behavior is extremely pernicious and, over the long term, represents the merger between identity politics and High Finance/Wall Street - much in the same manner that Wall Street manages large university endowments, which then collaborate to use their tax advantages money (a huge advantage for investors) to consolidate power and influence the course of this nation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#42411914)

these are not liberal policies they are left wing / Leninist ones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#42413023)

“US” “liberals” have very little to do with real classical liberals, they stole the word “liberal” decades ago as cover for illiberal left wing positions = skin suit

it’s why actual classical liberals had to make up the word “libertarian” because the Left stole the word “liberal” (although libertarians later also went a bit kooky)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#42413049)

We just have to kill these people. In real life, not in Minecraft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#42535490)

fuck this gay earth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#42795904)

Not enough but a good step in the right direction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#44704145)

Shareholders already have a terrible track record of exercising the rights of their ownership, this has just made it worse by an order of magnitude.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#46391821)

it smells like casu marzu.

gross.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#46383164)

As in when Budweiser sales go down, competition sales go up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827833&forum_id=2.#46384425)