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AI_Enjoyer87 t1_ixemn5d wrote

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The growth imperative is a capitalist foundation. A company cannot survive it isn't growing even if it is profitable. The nature of competition ensures this. If the leaders of companies pursue idealistic roads they will die. Grow or die is capitalism. All companies have to grow and make money or they will lose market share and die.

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RikerT_USS_Lolipop t1_ixenpp6 wrote

There are fuckloads of companies that have remained stable for centuries. I don't know where you got your perspective from but I suspect it was people pushing an agenda.

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kmtrp t1_ixeufos wrote

Or just a fancy armchair at home.

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div414 t1_ixg3sb1 wrote

Name 5 publicly traded companies that have remained stable in the last.. centuries?

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literalproblemsolver t1_ixfz9j4 wrote

Businesses do not need to grow to survive. "Profitable" means making money, which means not losing money, which means staying open. If something is profitable, you dont need more growth to "stay alive". In many cases, blindly chasing growth kills more companies than helps them. Small businesses stay open for decades with proper leadership. Weird how they dont just die randomly after not being a multinational corp?

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