Comment on Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The stock price will fall if we don’t make more money then we did last year.

  • But why? Because we are legally obliged to do what is best for shareholder, or they can sue us.
  • Right so the company needs to make more money again and again and again until the company or the world dies About sums it up

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  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Accurate. The laws need to find a balance as I get shareholders who took a risk on business would like to see a return, but it is way too slanted to the point that the risk is on our entire society. We need people to be in those laws not just shareholders.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe stock market was a mistake?

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Our implementation certainly is.

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    • doppelgangmember@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      See Norweigan Sovereign Wealth Fund for more…

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  • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s a great idea in theory. Basically a form of decentralised loans. You need money to invest, you still shares of your company to get some cash. In return the shareholders get a return of you succeed. And if course can sell their shares if now your company is worth more. Seems alright with me tbh.

    But nowadays it just seems like a fucking casino.

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    • franklin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know if you can have that ideology without it eventually turning into what it currently is.

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      • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m by now means an expert. So I asked the old CharlieGPT

        This list seems pretty good to me though:

        Transforming the stock market from its current state, which many perceive as being overly speculative, to a more stable and purposeful system would be challenging. However, here are some suggestions that could help mitigate its “casino-like” nature:

        1. Limit High-Frequency Trading (HFT): HFT can exacerbate market volatility. Some argue it provides liquidity, while others feel it allows for manipulation. By setting limits or additional regulations on HFT, you might reduce some of the rapid, short-term fluctuations.

        2. Enhance Financial Education: Educating the public about the fundamental analysis of companies, rather than speculative trading, can lead to a more informed investor base that makes decisions based on a company’s intrinsic value, not short-term price movements.

        3. Tax Incentives for Long-Term Holding: Offer tax benefits for long-term investments. For example, increase capital gains tax for stocks held less than a year and reduce it for those held longer. This would incentivize investors to think long-term.

        4. Increase Transparency: Companies could be required to disclose more about their financial health and business operations, making it easier for investors to make informed decisions.

        5. Reduce Leverage: Limit the amount of leverage retail investors can use. Excessive borrowing to buy stocks can magnify gains but also amplify losses, leading to more volatile markets.

        6. Strengthen Short-Selling Regulations: While short-selling can be a useful tool for price discovery, unrestricted or manipulative shorting can destabilize markets. Strengthening regulations and increasing transparency around short positions might help.

        7. Limit Derivatives or Complex Financial Products: Overly complex financial products can mask risk. By limiting or more strictly regulating these products, one might reduce systemic risks.

        8. Robust Regulatory Oversight: Enhance the powers and resources of regulatory bodies to monitor market manipulations, insider trading, and other unethical practices.

        9. Circuit Breakers: Strengthen and refine circuit breakers, which are mechanisms that temporarily halt trading on an exchange during significant declines for predefined periods.

        10. Restrict Speculative Products for Retail Investors: Limit access to highly speculative or complex products for inexperienced retail investors.

        11. Promote Stakeholder Capitalism: Shift the focus from purely shareholder returns to considering other stakeholders, such as employees, the community, and the environment. This can encourage companies to think long-term and align their strategies with broader societal benefits.

        12. Enhanced Shareholder Rights: Grant shareholders more power in corporate decision-making, making it easier for them to hold company executives accountable.

        Remember, the stock market serves as a crucial mechanism for companies to raise capital and for investors to grow wealth over time. Any regulations or reforms should be considered carefully to ensure they do not stifle innovation or economic growth.

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    • doppelgangmember@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Needs more socialism. But we know how that goes…

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    • jlou@mastodon.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It isn't a great idea even in theory. Even ideally, workers inalienable rights to appropriate the fruits of their labor and to democracy are still violated. These rights flow from the moral principle that legal and de facto responsibility should match. In a company, employees are jointly de facto responsible for using up the inputs to produce the outputs, but receive 0% of property rights and liabilities. The employer is held solely legally responsible resulting in a mismatch @technology

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• hagelslager@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Someone tell them they don’t have to follow Steve Jobs in everything.

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• Slotos@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tissue. A cancer tissue.

  Calls are expendable in pursuit of infinite growth.

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• doppelgangmember@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is too perfect of an analogy…

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