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StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It’s this.

and it’s always worth distinguishing between executives and investors.

Executives are going to push the problem, but the core issue with most things related to bad products is often due to shareholders. In the US, where most of these companies are based, a publicly traded company is expected to make money for its shareholders. Shareholders have subplanted customers in the companies ethical obligagions. The law has been used to make this national policy. Controlling shareholders can (and do) vote to remove company leadership that won’t act how they want. It is not just that they have to generate revenue, they have to generate as much revenue as possible as determined by shareholders.

If a company goes public, It’s only a matter of time until it’s product goes to shit.

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zuckey78@sh.itjust.works ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I want to upvote this one million times

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early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It was my understanding that it was a misconception that companies are legally bound to have an ROI or whatever. Not an economist so IDK. I just remember hearing that from several places. Regardless, the buyer-seller relationship is “I give you money, and you give me a product or service”. The investor-seller relationship is “We give you money, and you give us more money, and we don’t care how you do it.”

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- StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  
  It was my understanding that it was a misconception that companies are legally bound to have an ROI or whatever. Not an economist so IDK. I just remember hearing that from several places. Regardless, the buyer-seller relationship is “I give you money, and you give me a product or service”. The investor-seller relationship is “We give you money, and you give us more money, and we don’t care how you do it.”
  
  Only very technically. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. still made the shareholder a priority over the product or the customer. It’s a misconception that actual profit is the legal requirement. I suppose I’m guilty of furthering it, but it’s easier to keep the oversimplification than to explain the nuances when the outcome is the same.
  
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