Eli5: why the shareholders in a company are not liable to pay debts owed by the company?

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Eli5: why the shareholders in a company are not liable to pay debts owed by the company?

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because if shareholders would be liable to pay debts, no one would invest. Easy as that. Why would you buy $5000 of Apple stock, when you can lose everything you have?

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