{"id":191986,"date":"2009-05-27T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/27\/the-law-is-a-fool\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T04:04:00","slug":"the-law-is-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/27\/the-law-is-a-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law is a Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/8058103.stm\">60% of Royal Dutch Shell voted against bonuses for senior executives getting big bonuses after the oil giant missed its numbers<\/a>, but it has no force, because it&#8217;s forbidden in the US and most of the rest of the world for shareholders to have binding votes on remuneration.<\/p>\n<p>The executives keep their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, 60% of Royal Dutch Shell voted against bonuses for senior executives getting big bonuses after the oil giant missed its numbers, but it has no force, because it&#8217;s forbidden in the US and most of the rest of the world for shareholders to have binding votes on remuneration. The executives keep their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}