> I don't think it's crazy to expect assimilation.
What's that mean to you? In my city, immigrants work, run businesses, pay taxes, have kids and send them to local schools, ride the bus, complain about the weather, practice their religion. I guess the only thing they don't do is complain as loudly about the government as (many of) the rest of us. What more could they be doing to assimilate?
The very article you cited disagrees! You said they have "an obligation to maximize shareholder profits" while the linked article says they have to "operate in the interests of the shareholders." Those are two very different things!
Hunt around for just a few minutes on the google search, "do corporations have a legal obligation to maximize share value," and you'll see that what you said is the myth that gets repeated -- this one link probably summarizes the argument against the myth in the most neutral way:
Why? If the workers can apply pressure and get their employer to change whatever objectionable behavior it's doing, why shouldn't they?
Why shouldn't workplaces be more democratic? We got rid of kings everywhere else, why should we keep them around just because they're signing our paychecks?
I had an experience of total amnesia on LSD once. After a few minutes (objective, by a wall clock) of time-dilation experience (felt like 8 or 10 hours passing), I wandered upstairs and laid down on the bed. Again, a few minutes of closed-eye visuals that felt like hours passed, and when I opened my eyes, I had absolutely no idea who I was, even down to my name, where I lived, nothing. The only thing I could say was "I exist," without being able to qualify that in any way at all, and by staring at the room around me, "I'm in a room, seems to be in a city." Very, very strange experience. Suddenly, no more visuals, but it took the next few hours for details about myself, my hobbies, my work, etc., to start filtering back in.