• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Profit doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make the line go up! It’s a failing company because line didn’t go up! Tractors aren’t the product. Only line is product. All hail line. If we pray to line, perhaps line go up?

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      5 months ago

      Yes, yes, now: about those executive paychecks. We feel $27M per year isn’t competitive. We’re thinking more like 500M. To start.

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      10 to 15 yrs later: “Line no longer go up! We need bailout!, if no bailout, line go down and politicians fired!”

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      Yup sadly with how the Crockmarket works a company can fail because the line didn’t go up. If it doesn’t go up investors will pull out and kill a company but this thinking is bullshit because as soon as a company starts to dip some will sell but others will step in and then the new line is a bit lower but then it can go up without layoffs.

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      Remember that trope about AI destroying humanity due to mistakenly trying to over-optimize for bent paperclips

      Turns out it was actually always about the lines humanity itself could raise along the way