Abused puppy capitalism
'most public tech companies right now have shareholder bases that do not want them to do new things. And instead want them to give back cash.'
As a tech shareholder I'm personally pretty tired of tech firms giving back cash. On the risk aversion scale, the managers of public companies are down there with nematodes and abused puppies. Unfortunately, at the other end of this scale you have wolves and parasitic worms.
Capitalism is great, until it works.