• kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Any company that becomes publicly traded gets turned to the dark side. That’s the factor that does it because they have a legal requirement to do everything they can to maximize profits.

    Trying to sustain perpetual growth will always lead to companies fucking over their customers and employees.

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      While I feel this is true there are so few privately owned companies that prove this as fact. Holds breath that steam never fucks over its customers

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      There is also the B Corp designation (short for Public Benefit Corporation) which allows a company to balance its responsibility towards the share holders with some other benefit it aims to provide where the share holders aren’t the (only) beneficiaries.