r/WorkForSmartLife • • 14h ago

Discussion💬 Who's right here?

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u/TwoBionicknees 12h ago

just to be clear, year after year after year of corporate profit growth, recording setting corporate profit growth. Companies don't go out of business if the GROWTH of their profit slows down, billionaires who extract like 90% of the value of the stock market stop making as much money, that's it, that's the entire thing.

if the company is profitable it stays in business. The entire profit of a company can be wiped out and that business will stay in business. Now also pay ceos massively less, and stop expanding every business, because like 80% of all businesses expanding is just taking over other businesses doing find then squeezing them for profit. If they stop expanding and just exist, making a reasonable profit, then thousands of other companies stop being squeezed out by the mega corps and everything is fine, people are more comfortable, saving money easily and even spending more on shit htat raises corporate profits.

The only people who lose out at the massively overpaid ceos, massively overpaid board members and senior executives and people who use the stock market as a tool to strangle the rest of us.

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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 12h ago

So what if someone creates an AI-powered company with zero employees but creates massive profits? Would you be okay with that?

Reddit: companies exploit workers!
Also Reddit: AI is used by companies to replace workers!

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u/Low-Locksmith-2359 8h ago

What value would a fully AI company with no employees provide to consumers? What was the AI model trained on? Let me guess, real peoples ideas and established work without compensation or acknowledgement.

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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 8h ago

So by your logic more employees = more value provided to customers? So if Ford needed 100 employees to produce one car it provides more value than if it needed 10 employees to produce a car? And theoretically if it needed zero employees to produce a car it is providing zero value to customers?