Originally Posted by
dmunz
Is there some connection between shareholding and status? Maybe I don't understand what you are saying but if there is a backdoor to status through shareholding, that would be interesting.
FWIW
DLM
I believe he refers to the fact that as a shareholder, he is compelled to want the company to be as profitable as possible - platinum benefits cost the company money, so he's compelled to cheer for Marriott to make keeping Platinum
harder. Which is hard to reconcile as a Platinum member using those benefits.
My personal take is keep the shares. I get a fair amount of dividend from Air NZ, widely lambasted as having the crappiest FF scheme in the market, yet I still fly with them and I don't feel it's a conflict to want the FF scheme to suck less, even though I financially benefit from the scheme sucking and making the company more profitable.