Comment by mehrdada

This could a bit tangential to Sam's core point, but there is a lot of value that can be added to society that ends up reducing GDP (especially true when we talk about things governments should be doing), so I am not sure aligning everyone to maximize that singular metric is necessarily the best thing one could do.

More directly relevant to the core point is the short-term/long-term question: as also evident in the stock market, it is not clear that the companies controlled by shareholders are better focused on the long term than the ones where founders have majority control.