Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Modest profit isn’t an issue, but most businesses of more than a certain size accumulate MBAs like some kind of parasitic fungus. They then proceed to wring out as much money as possible in the short term while destroying the business in the long term.

  If it’s just a local guy making 5% or so a year off his one rental shop, that’s no problem.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah pretty much. There are behaviors that are profitable but not good for the community.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Competition solves this.

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The problem is maintaining competition. Another thing those MBAs salivate over is the idea of buying out the competition, and their squeeze-the-company-dry method can give them just enough money for just long enough to buy a competing business to run into the ground when the original one starts to give out. Like I said, parasitic fungus: move to a new host as the old one dies. Keeping them from spreading can only be accomplished by stronger government regulation than many people seem willing to see in place, alas.

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      • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Government regulation is needed for a healthy capitalism country yes.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In a purely profit business, you price things based on how much people are willing to pay for them.

  That translates into things never being priced as being “worth it”, but almost worth it, and definitely not worth it for people with tighter budget

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