The rate of profit is declining and the managers are looking for anything and everything to prop it back up. A German guy wrote about this like 150 years ago.
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PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Is Microsoft so in debt that they need to sell ad space in every pixal of their products? What is going on.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 2 months ago
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s not enough for a company to have a lot of money, they have to have all the money.
Remember: under capitalism companies are legally obligated to pursue every last dollar they can possibly get, regardless of the damage it will do to the product, company, customer, or bystanders.
exanime@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember: under capitalism companies are legally obligated to pursue every last dollar they can possibly get, regardless of the damage it will do to the product, company, customer, or bystanders
This is not true. Please stop repeating this lie which has become the excuse for companies to be even more evil
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Dumb businesses majors who only know “growth”
BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the 2nd most valuable company in the world? Hardly.
No they’re just switching business models, from paying for an OS outright to OS as a service
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
In that case you don’t pay for windows anymore, right? Right???
ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Growth must be infinite. Line must go up.
Plopp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Debt? This is capitalism, baby. Where every year’s profits have to be bigger than last year’s or else it counts as you failing, no matter how enormous the profits were last year.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 months ago
The hell? This leads only to inflation.
Toes@ani.social 2 months ago
Human sacrifices please the line. 💹
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That’s the CEO’s next paycheck