As for owning stock where you shop, that makes sense in alot of ways because if a business gets your business, it is generally because they are operating successfully.

For your second comment, I agree, I have run across many who simply do not understand, have not done their homework, and refuse reality on this issue. I like to point out to utopian collectivists who diatribe about corporations that a commune and a corporation are simply a group of owners teaming together to pool resources for a common profit in an entrepreneurial venture and point to grain mills, early ships, caravans and the like where the investment is simply too much for an individual but a team of like minded people working and sharing the business risk make it possible.