• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    They can’t care. If they don’t relentlessly pursue profit quarter after quarter, they’ll be consumed by companies who will. There is no planning for the future, only profits.

    • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca
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      23 hours ago

      Also the system selects for mental illness so a lot of the worst offenders here literally can’t feel empathy.

    • Live Your Lives@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Wasn’t Amazon’s whole thing for a while that they weren’t going to relentlessly pursue quarterly profits? So they can care, they just often don’t.

      • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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        13 hours ago

        Companies can bleed ridiculous amounts of money if it means that they can push competition out of the market. Couple less profitable, or even negative, quarters are fine, if they’re expecting good enough return for that investment. So, they’re still firmly on track with maximum profit hunting, sometimes it just takes some money to make even more money.