Blaming the stockholder is an answer that is too easy. Like saying the crowd gathered caused the Kennedy assasination.
Profit motive gets demonized a lot..
Tha article points out some good alternative theories, like production changes in the industry and the need to service the larger accounts.... It also seems like an activity that follows difficult economic times, like the smell of rotting flesh on the battlefield.
On a producer scale, if mergers are driven by the need to provide better service to larger accounts it is highly likely that smaller accounts become part of the ----"And one of the victims in consolidation is people" ---comment??
