In 2019, the Business Roundtable, an association of America¡¯s highest profile CEOs published a manifesto proclaiming profits, which benefit shareholders, were no longer their primary concern.

Going forward, member companies would also consider the needs of other stakeholders: workers, the community, the environment and anyone else deemed worthy. They called it ¡°a modern standard of corporate accountability.¡±

Sometimes, the old ways are better.