The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ~Marie Beyle
Yet in the end..once they are of no other use to the shepherd...are not the sheep then led to slaughter.
To me the corperation is like a faceless shepherd only his sole consern is in how much profit he will make out of us sheep and how fast he can make it.
As for whose opinions matter when it comes to economics (or anything else)...which btw is the topic of the thread as presented by the op:
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. ~Marcus Aurelius