The thing is that this isn’t an endpoint. We’ve got corporations that comfortably clear multiple billions in profit each quarter and the investors get sad when that number doesn’t keep going up because that was last quarter. It’s like the world’s fattest men insist that they’re starving to death. Investors will be satisfied with this for a quarter, and then they’ll have to turn to some other scheme to try and inflate profits further. I get that this is nominally how capitalism is supposed to work, but I think that putting the investor as the first, last, and only consideration has caused a proliferation of slash-and-burn style short-termism. It’s fake growth because it’s not actually sustainable, everyone knows it, but you just try and keep it up until the next short term scheme can keep your stonks inflated.

Imo, the market has already shown that it won’t bear infinite growth in streaming services (what with every network trying to start their own proprietary netflix-priced service), and they’re going to start running into that ceiling again as they all start to raise prices. The consumer just doesn’t have unlimited money, especially after the Fed pooped its pants when workers got their first real wage growth in 40 years and decided that it was a nightmare inflation scenario.