just following your lead in the discussion.
Didn't you imply that I can't make "sound personal decisions"? And that my intelligence is marred by the use of coffee?
Where did I say people must blame ceo for everything that goes wrong in an individuals life?
I take offense with corp leaders that put greed of profits far above the workers well being and ignore environmental sustaina bility -especially when they hapily take corporate wellfare, while donating billions to elect politicians that want to cut support for needy people( like poor mothers).
A ceo should work for his employees first and foremost, not wall street.
A CEO's job is literally to work for the company and the owners of the company. The CEO - particularly the Fortune 500 CEOs that you are targeting - is normally not the overlord you make him/her out to be, but an employee with a specific job. It is a normative assumption that a "good" CEO works for the "welfare" of the employees. However, CEO's are graded by their bosses (stockholders, board of directors, and consumers of their company's product), and their grades are normally based on things like profits and stock price. This isn't to say that a happy balance couldn't be struck between providing maximum benefits to employees and keeping the company in the black. In my post above this I mention that most CEOs are about as average at their jobs as an average joe is. So an average CEO just doesn't have the intellect to do both - so they'll do what they're paid to do first (or at least play at it). Anything else is a bonus.
But here is where I say that the average joe is complicit in this whole scheme: consumers have power over the CEO as much as shareholders do. If you stop buying Coke or Pepsi, or iPads, those companies stop making profits. You can compel these average CEOs to be more responsive to average joes by voicing your displeasure through consumer choice. But, as the average joe doesn't have their act together attempts at this (see Occupy Wall Street) are largely ill prepared and woefully inadequate.
If you don't like the world as it is, be the change you seek and start your own company. Just seems rather pointless to get mad at people for not sharing your value system.