A perfect example of a typical Fortune 500 executive: someone who cut their teeth as a pencil pushing accountant, then tax specialist, then CFO, finally a CEO. All these companies that hire CFOs as their CEOs get someone who is good at numbers but has as much vision for the future as my dog (to my dog's credit, he is awfully cute and lovable). Every time I see a company with an ex-CFO as the CEO, I know that company is doomed to conventional thinking and has to be a horrible place to work because every decision is about the bottom line.
As long as Wall Street gets their way, we won't have visionaries like Elon Musk fighting their way for a better future. And the more Wall Street and the financial types criticize the people who have a vision for a better world, the more compelled I feel to support people like Elon Musk. I'm spending three times as much money as I've ever spent on a new car (Model X on order) because there is very little else us 'little people' can do to rise up against the Wall Street profiteers and make a convincing statement about changing our world.
