If you’ve got a gripe with a company, buy stock in the company so you can attend stockholder meetings and wreak a little havoc. That’s exactly what Jack Thompson did:
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Jack Thompson has purchased shares in Take-Two interactive – otherwise known as the publisher behind the Grand Theft Auto series of games. So has JT suddenly become a financial supporter of the company he’s long campaigned against? Not a chance. JT has purchased stock in the company in order that he might attend Take-Two’s shareholder meetings and face up to the company’s CEO, Paul Eibeler.
I guess if you’ve got money to blow, this is one way to make your point. I’d love to be at that stock holder meeting — the guy’s going to get beaten senseless.
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As much as I disagree with him, buying stock in a company is an excellent way to help shape a company’s policy.
This is a very effective way of getting yourself heard. All it takes is the purchase of a single share to be entitled to shareholders’ meetings.
Actually, it’s kind of sad that you have to be rich to even hope to affect what corporations do.