Find me one employee who would feel ripped off that their 5000, 10000, or 100000 sell at even $20 instead of some hypothetical number could have been achieved by better hypothetical management. Oh those poor people, should have taken the offer to work at _____ instead?
It's pretty easy to be on the outside and say, "Oh, boo-hoo, they're still millionaires", but it's a different story when it's your own wealth. I assure you I could find people around the world who would say the same about your earnings.
Anyway, the point was that the stock diving isn't victimless. There are real people losing real wealth.
Not if what we're talking about is facebook getting a higher valuation than they "should" have. If facebook is "really" worth 90 billion, then the employees are going to get x% of 90 billion 6 months from now; that would still be true if the IPO valuation had been 80 billion rather than 100. No?
