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<blockquote data-quote="ThorinTeague" data-source="post: 8938792" data-attributes="member: 7032074">I feel like when corporations separate the realm of profit from the realm of production... both are losers. I feel like, hey man, make all the money in the world, go for it. Make billions, get yourself an olympic size swimming pool, fill it with money so you can swim in it Scrooge McDuck style.It's just... when there's people whose sole purpose is to make money--indeed they can't not make money, they'll lose their jobs if the company grows less than about 6% per year, and these people have nothing to do with the product or the customers, this creates problems. Especially when said people are given basically free reign over the steering wheel at the expense of all other considerations. But also I guess that's the price you pay when you put your business out there for public trade. Investors aren't just giving corporations free money.... they have expectations...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThorinTeague, post: 8938792, member: 7032074"] I feel like when corporations separate the realm of profit from the realm of production... both are losers. I feel like, hey man, make all the money in the world, go for it. Make billions, get yourself an olympic size swimming pool, fill it with money so you can swim in it Scrooge McDuck style. It's just... when there's people whose sole purpose is to make money--indeed they can't [I]not[/I] make money, they'll lose their jobs if the company grows less than about 6% per year, and these people have nothing to do with the product or the customers, this creates problems. Especially when said people are given basically free reign over the steering wheel at the expense of all other considerations. But also I guess that's the price you pay when you put your business out there for public trade. Investors aren't just giving corporations free money.... they have expectations... [/QUOTE]

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