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[-] Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

To expand on this, it's not just capitalism - it's greed.

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago
[-] kboy101222@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

And capitalism causes greed!

[-] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I though it's the other way around. Maybe it's both and it's closed circle

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think "greed" is quite the right word. "Greed" would be the right word if they were trying to make themselves more profitable. But they're not: they're trying to make themselves profitable at all. That's not about greed, but about surviving. You can't survive unless you stop hemorrhaging money at some point.

Maybe the question is "Why do investors invest so many hundred of billions of dollars into companies that cannot be profitable without becoming super-shitty? And why do users join them knowing that they're going to become super-shitty one day?"

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think “greed” is quite the right word. “Greed” would be the right word if they were trying to make themselves more profitable.

I mean regardless of whether it's greed or not it's happening because they need to generate a profit period lol.

“Why do investors invest so many hundred of billions of dollars into companies that cannot be profitable without becoming super-shitty? And why do users join them knowing that they’re going to become super-shitty one day?”

David Harvey has been ringing the bell on this for at least a decade lol. Effectively capitalism runs out of profitable investments when you need continued YoY growth. Like finding trillions of new investment opportunities a year is just not realistic. So capitalists fund bullshit projects and flow their money into markets where the perceived value is significantly greater than any of the actual socially necessary value. And that distance grows greater over time, until people realize 'what the fuck are we funding' (like what happened with crypto, or the metaverse), and then that gap immediately shrinks and the unlucky capitalists lose their money. And that will continue happening.

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

To expand on this, it’s not just capitalism - it’s greed.

No it's just capitalism lol. Every company has to continue reaping in profits for capitalists or else it dies. This is just Reddit's way of doing that.

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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