I don’t understand why companies need to grow when they already produce big or even obscene profits every year
I’m not gonna eat the rich but i sure would enjoy watching others do it.
Changes in net income don’t necessarily mean more money around, it probably involves an increase in costs too. Net profit is what to focus on.
And a “50 cent” raise is per hour per employee per year so for 1000 employees every 50 cents is $1 million per year. Obviously still small compared to a $100 million buyback.
There’s an argument to make here but this post specifically is not a particularly good example of it.
It’s so shocking to me that there is a significant portion of society that has agreed that this is either a fun game to play, just the way the game works, or that it is their right by via some arbitrary relationship to someone real or imaginary to control the board.
The worse part in my eyes is that most of us don’t even like this game or don’t like the way that they’re playing it. We are just enjoying the sandbox and want to play with the sand together or alone. We wanna build castles and have tea parties and certainly didn’t agree to move sand around according to someone else’s designs in exchange for means to buy some sand. We don’t even want to own sand, but if you don’t pretend to own some, then the ones who are paying you so that you can buy sand will take all the sand away from you and then you’re not allowed to play in the sandbox anymore. You then have to go hang out in the corner where the cats poop.
And by far, the worst part of all: not only did we not want to play this game, the ones telling us we have to play the game in order to stay in the sandbox — the only way they can have fun and know that they’re winning the arbitrary game is to kick the coarse bits of sand in our eyes while showing and bragging about how much fine sand they own. They don’t even kick the fine sand at us because we “wouldn’t use it right.”
Man, I didn’t even ask to be in this sandbox… But since I’m here, I just really don’t wanna have to hang out in the cat-poop corner.
This is capitalism.
Unregulated Capitalism is the issue not Capitalism itself. Ideas can’t harm you. It is the implementation that is the issue.
I do not believe in getting rid of capitalism as well, just wanting it well regulated but reread your reply and exchange capitalism with nazism. Some ideas can hurt no matter the implementation.
Nope. The only reason we know Fascism is bad is because we understand the idea of Nazism. The concept itself is great for those that wish to avoid Authoritarian goals. The idea isn’t dangerous. There is no such thing as dangerous information. Information, no matter the subject, is only volatile when mixed with People intending harm. Whether the harm is “justifiable by the goals” or open bigotry or simply stupidity is irrelevant. It is the People you must watch, not the information.
yeah but again we can replace capitalism with fascism or nazism in your previous comment. Ideas were any implementation of it are bad are bad. Again im not arguing against capitalism just that phrase you used about it.
No matter how well regulated Fascism is, the state of existence is intolerable. Well regulated Capitalism however has been proven to improve everyone’s well being.
how do you know. maybe it just has not been implemented right. after all its just an idea and not harmful in itself, no? Obviously im playing devils advocate here, or that is I am saying that some ideas can be harmful in and of themselves. if an idea cannot be implemented without it being bad then the idea itself is bad.
Aka evil.
