When the platform dies.
“first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. “
Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again
Mannimarco@lemmy.world 1 year ago“When will the greed stop?”
Never
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Incorrect.
It will stop when our species exterminates itself out of greed.
Climate change will probably only thin our numbers out of the owner’s greed, but then they want to profit off AI, and CRISPR, and innumerable other potentially profitable means to our extinction.
The greed will stop when all the humans are dead, and humans wre actively working to accomplish this.
CosmoNova@feddit.de 1 year ago
It‘s laughable to expect corporations to act against their only purpose. As soon as a company sells shares it takes the route of infinite growth which is impossible. First they grow their user base and once they start to inevitably stagnate, they start milking their costumers, shaving off features and laying off workers in order to grow their income. It is really the only way for them to remain existent when the market is saturated. They cannot stay in business when they make billions a year when these billions aren‘t even more billions than last year. You can‘t attract new investors that way and therefore cannot continue to exist. Enshittyfication only just started. It cannot possibly get better when they can‘t expand their user base, only worse. They know they will self destruct eventually, but that doesn‘t matter as long as shareholders get their piece of the cake and jump ship to sink the next one. Just being a massively profitable company is bad business if you‘re not growing. That‘s the state of capitalism we‘re in.
kinsnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yeah, the stock market makes that a company that is stable and generates a reliable income each year is seen as bad, but a company that has large grow in obviously unsustainable speed, which doesn’t have plans on how to ever become profitable is good (i am not specifically taking about netflix here)
Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Seems like, at a certain point in your growth and success, you could use your billions to buy back stock. That could keep the stock price high, which keeps investors happy. Once you’ve bought back enough stock, you can effectively go private again, with all of the growth paid for by investors.