>>52522543The failure inherent is that they aren't actual 'shareholders' in a traditional investment sense, but swing traders who want the share price to go up in the short to mid term and then sell their stock to buy something else. While theoretically it makes sense to do this, you're better off with the Berkshire A investment strategy holding over 40 years as Wrren Buffet and his diet coke pushes your investments to the moon. Ideally, perhaps, shareholder meetings would be restricted to investors who intend to be longterm holders, instead of shorter term speculators. There is, after all, no point in honoring the suggestions of people who are not invested but merely looking to dump the company once they are in profit.