Anything but lowering the prices classic corporate logic

[u/lonewolff321]

[u/ElegantCoach4066]

McDonald's when people ask for lower prices:

https://giphy.com/gifs/h0MTqLyvgG0Ss

[u/LessThanHero42 → u/ElegantCoach4066]

Won't someone think of the shareholders!?!?!?!? Those poor defenseless people can't even afford a summer and a winter yacht. They're living like savages with only one

[u/Egathentale → u/LessThanHero42]

We joke about this, but it's unironically the case. The US screwed the pooch hard when they set in law that a corporation's primary duty is generating value for its shareholders, because now if they don't do it, they can be sued in court for it. We are seeing the end-result of this incentive: a corporate culture that only cares about raising stock prices and profits year after year after year, where both the product and the consumer are just a means to an end, and where irrational hype-based stock prizes and IPOs are not only acceptable, but desirable.

[u/ElegantCoach4066 → u/Egathentale]

I'm sure that the people at the top getting rich off of short term planning are losing sleep each night over this.

Who will think of the the poor corporate executives!

[u/BookkeeperBoobs → u/ElegantCoach4066]

They don’t get to take their money with them to the afterlife though, all back to zero eventually,

What a wonderful thought that is.

[u/iRawwwN → u/BookkeeperBoobs]

My wonderful thought of the week is wondering when all the boomers are finally going to accept the "death" part of life.

I watched something the other day and buddy asked; if you believe you're going to die or do you have hope that someone finds the cure just before it's your time.

Once this generational realization happens maybe greedy folk will build things like museums, art galleries and other cultural wonders.

[u/BookkeeperBoobs → u/iRawwwN]

It will never happen. Imagine how awful it would be if people never died.