-10 downvotes for stating a fact.
Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 days agoIt is almost like it is a for profit company or something
It isn’t a charity. The goal is to bring in money for the investors, nothing else.
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
tane4@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Always two dumb bitches telling each other “exaaaactly”
Darth_Lemmy@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
it’s not the fact part it’s the seemingly on the side of the corpos and defending them for being shit stains by saying tHaTs WhAt ThEy ArE SuPpOsEd To Do
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
In a capitalist system, that is what they are supposed to do. They are even compelled by law to maximise their return to investors. You are attacking them for stating a fact, believing that by merely uttering the fact, they are endorsing it.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Lemmy is a weird place
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
yes, thats what we are criticizing.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
do enough bad business and it’ll whip right around and effect those profits. watch.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Sure it will. Boeing, the entire O&G sector and blackrock have all suddenly filed bankruptcy.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Let’s look at the stock history: oh yeah boeing hasn’t suffered financially at all. let’s see, 2019: peaks at $422… today $221
now, I’m not gonna tell you that’s fallen far enough to make up for the shittery, but it’s hardly doing their business good.
but thanks for playing!
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Oh you mean when they did all of their share buy backs and then subsequently diluted by 50%