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minus-squareFreudianCafe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down2·27 days agoValve is the living proof that you can have great service and still be profitable. Will capitalists learn? No
minus-squarebigkahuna1986@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up25·27 days agoWhy have great service and be profitable when you can have terrible service and be 1.6% more profitable?
minus-squareTenderizer78@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·26 days agoCorrection: Be just as profitable but cash out on that profit slightly sooner.
minus-squareSheeEttin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·26 days agoMore like far less profitable over years, but far more this quarter. And when it inevitably goes south because you’re squeezing too hard? Who cares, on to the next company!
minus-squareOniononon@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·edit-226 days agoTheres a lot more good companies that are profitable and pay their employees well than there are not. Soviet union and other commie nations would regularly kill or send to torture death camps the workers who did not meet the quotas.
minus-squareFreudianCafe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·26 days agoThis is so deranged its actually funny. Legit not sure if this is next level sarcasm or just utter dumbness
minus-squareOniononon@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·26 days agoof course someone from tankie triad would argue against facts because their fee fees got hurt.
minus-squareFreudianCafe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·26 days agoSure buddy. Hope you find those crayons you want to eat so bad
Valve is the living proof that you can have great service and still be profitable. Will capitalists learn? No
Why have great service and be profitable when you can have terrible service and be 1.6% more profitable?
Correction: Be just as profitable but cash out on that profit slightly sooner.
More like far less profitable over years, but far more this quarter. And when it inevitably goes south because you’re squeezing too hard? Who cares, on to the next company!
Theres a lot more good companies that are profitable and pay their employees well than there are not.
Soviet union and other commie nations would regularly kill or send to torture death camps the workers who did not meet the quotas.
This is so deranged its actually funny. Legit not sure if this is next level sarcasm or just utter dumbness
of course someone from tankie triad would argue against facts because their fee fees got hurt.
Sure buddy. Hope you find those crayons you want to eat so bad