That CEOs in general don't actually exhibit the behavior I've described? Or that they only do it because the shareholders demand it?
And while we're at it, you seem to be suggesting that "the stockholders" has some significant overlap with "the workers". Which may be slightly true, but ignores the fact that catering to "the street" doesn't mean main street, it means Wall Street. The analysts and institutional investors drive the short-term thinking, not the people who only check their 401k every couple of months.