If you're interested and have any index funds, you could call shareholder relations for one of these companies and make that argument. "why are you turning down income streams and hurting your own profits" is maybe a position they'd listen to?
If you're interested and have any index funds, you could call shareholder relations for one of these companies and make that argument. "why are you turning down income streams and hurting your own profits" is maybe a position they'd listen to?
Quite a few folks already are - it’s why MasterCard felt the need to issue a statement trying to obfuscate their role in things, meanwhile Visa is doubling down in the UK by trying to push laws banning content with consenting adults wearing “childish clothes”, a category so vague that it’s designed to be abused by the powers in charge.
This is why companies shouldn’t be allowed to engage in politics or lobbying: a handful of for-profit entities are abusing their capture of western finance to push personal agendas regardless of popular opinion or actual legality.