It is, again, my opinion that among the terrible things to ever happen to the concepts of "money" and "capitalism," which are already pretty terrible concepts to begin with, the introduction of the additional concepts of "investors" and "shareholders" was probably the worst. Things have only gone to utter shit since then, in the grand scheme of things.
And I just have to say... if The Walking Dead (for which I've only read the comics, and played the Telltale games, but not seen any of the show) had actually ended up being about alien invasions or whatever? That would have been complete dogshit.