Should Christians work for a public company?

This week's post comes compliments of Dan Morehead and Dave -- they have made similar comments recently about working for public companies and I think they raise a very difficult question.

Dan Morehead: "Should Christians work for companies that are publicly traded? The notion here would be that the owners (stockholders) of companies that are publicly traded have limited liability (and therefore responsibility) and are disconnected from the locality of where the business operates. This makes it exceedingly difficult to be accountable to anyone other than the stockholders themselves and the demand for growth."

Dave: "It would seem that our ability to divorce ethics from our business practices proportionally rises as the chance of ever meeting the client you are profiting from decreases."

Two questions:

1) If you work for a public company, why and do you find working for a public company conflicts with the process of becoming more and more like Jesus?

2) If you don't work for a public company, why not...and have you worked for one previously and chosen specifically to leave?