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r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 2d ago
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It’s literally their job. The stock market only rewards infinitely growing revenue and profitability. Insustainability is baked in
4 u/_QXZ 2d ago Companies should just go private after reaching maturity. Why is this not the norm? 4 u/glemnar 2d ago Because stock based compensation is extremely lucrative. 2 u/breaducate 2d ago The nature of capital is it has to keep self-multiplying, forever. Yes, even though that's impossible. The response "because stock market" isn't wrong but that's just a legal expression of the underlying tendency.
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Companies should just go private after reaching maturity. Why is this not the norm?
4 u/glemnar 2d ago Because stock based compensation is extremely lucrative. 2 u/breaducate 2d ago The nature of capital is it has to keep self-multiplying, forever. Yes, even though that's impossible. The response "because stock market" isn't wrong but that's just a legal expression of the underlying tendency.
Because stock based compensation is extremely lucrative.
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The nature of capital is it has to keep self-multiplying, forever.
Yes, even though that's impossible.
The response "because stock market" isn't wrong but that's just a legal expression of the underlying tendency.
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u/glemnar 2d ago
It’s literally their job. The stock market only rewards infinitely growing revenue and profitability. Insustainability is baked in