@jeff
But it's not a woman thing, it is a publically traded company thing.

If you own the company, you want it to grow. But if you own shares, you want to do one short term gambit, and then bail before it burns.

It's sad, but learning about the stock market was kinda the thing, that broke the entire concept of capitalism to me.

@LukeAlmighty the stock market is just the place that bankers fuck each other in the ass. it has no connection to reality at all and only terminally seething midwits, tanky revcom weenies and poor people get mad at it existing.
it has literally no impact on anything normal people do

@jeff
YES, and no.
Apart from fucking each other in the ass, they are also trading "pokemon cards" with company names on them, and taking your savings account to buy their favorite card packs.

Other then that, you're correct. Sadly, person with most cards now decides, how your company is going to be managed. And as you could guess, these guys don't care about sustainable growth.

@LukeAlmighty just dont run a publicly traded company be a small business jfc it's not hard dude.

@jeff
And there are always other ways of financing, but what do I know

@LukeAlmighty yea and if people want to play anal retard wars with the bankers that is their problem.

@LukeAlmighty it LITERALLY doesnt fuckin matter and the only people who think it does matter either profit from it or get screwed up the ass by it.
valve is not a publicly traded company. that is why it's good.

@jeff
I know...
And I agree. Going public is a "company values" suicide.

You cannot uphold a culture if you cannot make decisions. And from there on, it is just a question of time, before............

@LukeAlmighty go public, lary fink buys a big holding, he tells you we all have to suck the dick bigot, company takes a shit, goes broke, goes woke, sold off to state street and CCP now tells you to dig the fucking hole.

@caekislove @LukeAlmighty godot tbh