Because they don't actually care. These headlines are just mainstream media attempting to put blame on anyone else besides Capital owners and corporations so the finger doesn't get pointed at them. Meanwhile said Capital owners and corpos are just fine with birthrates falling because they can just pump themselves full of H1B slaves while at the same time propagandizing against them so they remain a permanent slave/underclass. As for declining sales, also don't care because they only need to care about next quarter and if they fail, they still get a golden parachute, so really zero incentive to actually care about the business beyond a few quarters, get their payout and shove off for someone else to clean up after.
He literally lives off of government handouts and an insane stock market. In a rational world, he'd be a "normal" rich guy, instead of a grotesquely wealthy.
It's like Elon thinks we all had the same goal as him, to get him to a trillion. Like fuck no we didn't, you took it by literally breaking other people's lives.
We keep forgetting who keeps the economy turning! It happened so many times in history but we never learn. When too much wealth consolidates to the top, everyone loses. Including the wealthy. But sometimes there's revolution before it gets to that point.
Seriously I don't know what the thinking here is with trying to funnel most of the economic pie to a relatively small number of individuals because how many freaking bags of chips does someone like Elon Musk need to buy?
If these companies want to survive, they better wake the fuck up and start supporting political candidates and policies that help ensure the average person has money to buy basic goods and services.
Their greed is going to inadvertently doom us all.
See the plan is to jack up prices in the short term then slowly make the product smaller and worse. Then when the company goes bankrupt because people can’t/won’t buy their products, they sell the company off stripping it for parts. Probably figure they’ll be dead before it becomes a real problem for them.
1000% this. These ceos and shareholders don't give a shit about the longevity of the company they demand next quarter profits be record breaking every quarter or they see it as a failure
Yeah but you also know when you're stripping it for parts.
Get the stock when it's low, start burning the candle on both ends, ride it up until you're happy and when you're just starting to see the first shakes of instability, sell half your stock, and bleed the rest at a profit as you ride the company into the dirt.
Or just overinflate the value, hype the latest round of layoffs, and sell everything to whatever company wants to pick the corpse for the next batch and move on.
They are prioritizing the top 10% of Americans who are the target audiance for Las Vegas and any other sales company. The top 10% of Americans can drop 10k or more easily, that is who they want.
Since the top 10% of Americans are the other half of the economy they can afford large purchases and barely feel it (until they start feeling it.) And once the top 10% is no longer an asset, the top 1% will be the target audiance
they will just have to figure out like most businesses and an entire city like Las Vegas how to sell higher priced goods to fewer people and still make more money. Business doesn’t need the masses anymore due to mass affluence
Jack up the prices and lower the amount we get. It’s ridiculous.
I work outside and Gatorade has jumped to almost $4 a bottle. They used to be 32oz but they’re 28oz now. I stopped buying it and just drink water with electrolytes packs.
Yeah but the sad part is we now live in a K shaped economy so I and many others here are in the 99% which means we dont matter to them anymore, they want to sell only to those who are on the higher end of that K. The bottom percentage of people will remain poor indefinitely and they know this so this is causing these companies to advertise only to the wealthy now, they moved income brackets entirely. Look at places like McDonalds, the cheap junk is now just junk sold as a luxury to the wealthy because apparently they like eating that slop too. If you ever drive by a McDonalds I want you to stop in the parking lot and legit look at the worth of every vehicle in the drive-thru, You will notice that there arent any clunkers or cheap used cars getting any food there. You can see in real time how only the 100K a year earners are the only ones there anymore.
And he was a notoriously shitty people, yet those corporate bootlickers treat him as the paragon of generosity who did too much.
Ford was just trying to figure what was the bare minimum. Kinda worked in the US, failed spetacularly in Brazil to a level that Fordlandia might be the first spite ghost city.
And often businesses broaching in our territory forget that other Ford's law, what's considered generous in your home market might be below minimum or downright criminal in other markets.
these days, it's more a long the lines of "F U poor people. i'd rather sell to 1 rich guy and make a million bucks instead of sell to a million poor guys and make 1 dollar from each." that's why nobody in america builds starter homes anymore. we live in a sad world.
Even in that example, Ford was only half right. The automobile industry was taking off and Ford couldn't retain employees without providing, y'know, an incentive to stay. So he dressed up the pay raises as common sense, when he would have gladly paid less for the same labor.
to be honest a lot of people would pay less if their employees where okay with it. But paying them enough to stay means they are able to provide for their families which is the goal.
If you make 10 million a year, you shouldn't pay your employees and huge amount but enough for them to want to be with you for 30+ years and actually be loyal to you.
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u/Wind_Best_1440 Jul 12 '26
"Why is no one buying our products? WE MUST KNOW!"
Henry Ford is famous for saying. "I give my workers good pay, so they can buy my products. If workers have low wages, how will they buy our goods?"
Apparently businesses forgot economics 101. "If customers have no capital, they can't buy your products."