Funny cause in the long run shareholders are just as effed as the rest of us, so this is not protection
You're right. I should've said "Short-term Thinker Protection Agency."
The old truism remains true today. A society becomes great when old men plant trees to cast shade they will never sit in.
In the long run, we're all dead. So shareholders might suffer the same fate, but they're more comfortable before we all drown.