“Oh no! Time to monetize their ever increasing poorness even more somehow!” -some rich prick somewhere
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I remember just last week Kevin Hassett was proudly exclaiming how the economy was doing so well, citing Americans spending more on their credit cards. He even says something along the lines of 'they're spending more of it on gas, but spending is up'.
God really needs to deus ex us right about now.
Time to lay off some of those consumers and cut wages so we can claim to be positioned better for profits from the very people we’re cutting.
They just realized this??? hahahaha
And yet they'll never take a pay cut and will support trump and his ilk all the way to bankruptcy
Oh my god. These dumb asses forget that people need money in the first place in order to give it to them.
and then have to spend it in countries that are "tax-billionaire friendly' which is going to slowly diminishing if they all become authoritarian in nature, eventually authotarians will be the only one that is the billionaire.
slow clap and the last horse finally crosses the finish line.
Too bad the rest of us have already been gluesticked.
What a revelation! Give that CEO a raise! :|
The obvious solution is to tighten the wages to claw back profits despite the declining sales volume!
You'd think they'd listen to themselves jibber jabber.
How about less stockholder and more customer.
I tend to not go to any chain restaurants at all anymore. I have one exception for the local bar that has super cheap prices and good food. otherwise, I go to privately owned restaurants and bars
who the fuck wants to pay $9 for a beer at Kelsey's where you can get ignored by your server for 20 minutes when trying to get the bill that shows you paid $25 for bland food, then be expected to tip the person already making a bit more than minimum wage $10 for the literally 2.5 minutes of service they gave you. no thanks
the stone is no longer bleeding! hit it harder!
Lol they aren't concerned with people "running out of money" they're concerned nobody will buy their products. Which could be solved by giving people more money but that's not an option for them.
Klarna and 8 year car loans are just the beginning. Trump was serious when he said we should do 100 year mortgages, THAT is the solution they are looking for. Not, "how can we get people more money to buy things". But more "how can we get people with no money to continue buying things".
Oh waaa 🎻
The nerve of these companies and CEOs complaining… They were warned about this a long time ago.
None of these fuckers think long term. it's all quarter by quarter. I see it in my job even with startups. Build something now, use AI, it works now? great. it won't scale a year or two down the line? that's a problem for future me.
Are we making money now? great. what do you mean a year or two down the line there will be no one left that makes enough money to buy our shit? that's a problem for future me.
they are all pretty much run like a PE firm.
Steve Jobs actually mentioned this happens when leadership comes from a sales focused, rather then product focused, background. Everything becomes short term thinking, and then they dip when they see/reach the inflection point of their profit growth, and blame the inevitable company failure on the next guy
The last corporate job I had before going into business myself, was as a sales manager for a Fortune 100 company.
It was very common at the end of a quarter to have to call around to wholesale customers, and beg them to take a pallette of some poorly selling sku, telling them "Don't even unwrap it. Just stick it in a corner of the warehouse, and when the quarter turns, I'll authorize a return of the inventory, and give you a discount on something else to make up for the trouble."
Did it all the time.
I made a ton of money building reporting systems which made it simple to identify this form of gaming sales numbers to fit targets.
Thank you.
So the bosses would know I was doing that? Who do you think told me to do it? LOL.
Generally, I was working for the boss's boss's boss.
Yeah, it went all the way to the top. Those guys wanted it done. It wasn't the top brass we were fooling, it was the stock holders, who were reacting to quarterly numbers that were essentially faked.
But business and something about being more efficient or something like that.
Yeah, my company is chasing an IPO and so is slashing wages. People are leaving in droves, but since it makes number go up…
No care whatsoever about post IPO. It’s going to be awful.
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I have yet to read or hear of one CEO who ever deserved a godawfully huge bonus, but they do stick together those cunning rats. While it is true that most citizens have been "capitalized" out of even the spare nickels and dimes they had kicking around, the best the CEO can do is say "Our customers don't have any money", not why they don't have any money. Fuck those big bonuses. The market is wild and out of control and has been forever so what exactly are those bonuses for...fluke profit?
even Soros says alot of things that are pretty pro-billionaire and just rubs people the wrong way. hes what you would get if GATES isnt associated with EPSTEIN or his ruthlessness in MS.
From my brief skim of the article it seems like they're worried that poor people not being able to afford anything will mean less profits for big businesses.
Do you think they'll ever realize that there are so many poor people that can't afford anything anymore because those same companies have spent 60+ years ensuring wages stay exactly where they were while prices increased?
I doubt it. It's clear that to be a CEO you need to have zero problem solving skills, just social connections and rich parents (usually). It's the rest of the management team below the C-Suite that has does the thinking. Then middle manglement fucks up implementing it to try and get noticed for a promotion from their dead-end position because they aren't a part of the rich club already.
besides tech, most other stem jobs are pretty stagnant and low to begin with. yea trades might good for some people, that arnt prone to physical ailements but it seems its much more geared towards white people instead, plus the conservative culture of the industry. in construction is quite uncommon to see an asian person working there.
CEOs are all psychopaths because they're good at that kind of work :(
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The parasites are killing their hosts.
Demanding infinite growth in a finite system is the definition of cancer.
"We're not selling enough shit - better put prices up and make our products half the size!"
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