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$1.8 billion would have paid all 9000 people 200k for a year. 27 billion profit for one quarter.
This is what winning looks like and most people are just hostage
It is almost like it is a for profit company or something
It isn't a charity. The goal is to bring in money for the investors, nothing else.
yes, thats what we are criticizing.
do enough bad business and it'll whip right around and effect those profits. watch.
Sure it will. Boeing, the entire O&G sector and blackrock have all suddenly filed bankruptcy.
Let's look at the stock history: oh yeah boeing hasn't suffered financially at all. let's see, 2019: peaks at $422.. today $221
now, I'm not gonna tell you that's fallen far enough to make up for the shittery, but it's hardly doing their business good.
but thanks for playing!
Oh you mean when they did all of their share buy backs and then subsequently diluted by 50%
What other games you got? I’m enjoying playing
haha how about a quick round of hide and go fuck yourself while we're at it.
positing that their incompetency hasn't hurt the company at all is simply silly.
edit: aw guess not huh sport?
-10 downvotes for stating a fact.
Always two dumb bitches telling each other “exaaaactly”
it's not the fact part it's the seemingly on the side of the corpos and defending them for being shit stains by saying tHaTs WhAt ThEy ArE SuPpOsEd To Do part
In a capitalist system, that is what they are supposed to do. They are even compelled by law to maximise their return to investors. You are attacking them for stating a fact, believing that by merely uttering the fact, they are endorsing it.
Lemmy is a weird place
This comment highlights a fundamental misunderstanding on how companies are supposed to operate.
This comment highlights a fundamental misunderstanding on how society should tolerate companies operating.