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[–] 15 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

Shareholders need ever increasing value or they will sell their shares. In the US at least, it is illegal to not provide shareholders with value. The only way to reliably get value is to fuck over your customers at every turn and fire half of your employees every few years

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  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    That's the reason we should get rid of publicly traded companies.

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  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Then you would still have private equity firms fucking everyone over, but with even less regulatory oversight.

    I think publicly traded companies should be nationalized under an independent and thoroughly-audited oversight body accountable to the taxpayers, and any profits generated should be distributed to fund public works, social services, welfare benefits, and civil sector orgs.

    And the idea of infinite growth needs to be abandoned entirely. These major internet companies need to be viewed as a public utility, and their goal should be to provide stable, reliable, quality services rather than churn an endless profit. This can only be done after nationalizing them though.

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