> "Society will be better off in the future your honor." Is only gonna go so far.
Investment funds are usually well-diversified anyway - so when society is better off, they are better off too. It's really, really uncommon for someone to hold a sizeable position in a single company or even sector in the medium-to-long run. So, even if you posit that this bill might "hurt Google" (and never mind that Google is in CA where non-compete agreements are heavily limited already - funny coincidence, that one), only comparatively few stakeholders would truly be made worse off.
Investment funds are usually well-diversified anyway - so when society is better off, they are better off too. It's really, really uncommon for someone to hold a sizeable position in a single company or even sector in the medium-to-long run. So, even if you posit that this bill might "hurt Google" (and never mind that Google is in CA where non-compete agreements are heavily limited already - funny coincidence, that one), only comparatively few stakeholders would truly be made worse off.