Businesses- to outsource or not outsource?

Naaa… but the rando down the street will have the right to play your machines too. And …since he wont be “down the street” very long because he will have the right to share one of your larger rooms, you can both play together.

Taxes are a small part. It is more due to the requirement that companies need to have consistent growth, and continually grow profits, so Wall Street, and investment firms can make as much as possible.

This also causes an abundance of monopolies…

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Sweet!

We can thank Newt for a lot of that. When he became speaker, he gutted the in house professionals who used to advise pols on a variety of industries.

Essentially, he replaced all those boring nerdy government employees…with lobbyists.

That, and CEO and upper management compensation, is primarily based on the stock price.

Which is why companies do a ton of stock by backs, to increase the stock price, and then they get a handsome reward. Often.

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Wait…the conservative mantra is “greed is good”.

Did that change?

I haven’t gotten one direct answer from a fellow Conservative, except Call Me Ish.

I know why…

They love capitalism but cannot reconcile how capitalism influenced the inevitable move to cheaper labor globally.

They cry about China making everything but balk at high prices on American made items. When the goal is to maximize profits and keep prices low… well you must also lower your costs to achieve that.

It really puts y’all in a pickle.

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That would also make them entitled to profits. Or, they could just have you do the work, and swoop in after.

I do sometimes wonder if things would even out if there was socialism across the globe. Meaning everyone would be on board with it, and no price is better anywhere else because everyone has the same thing and the means of obtaining it.

But that would also mean that you would have to have enough producers to supplement those who cannot provide for themselves.

Besides, how would it be enforced? Humans are opportunists by nature.

I’ve been told I’m not a conservative because I supported Trump. This news comes from people here who swear they were life long conservatives. So you’ll have to ask one of those conservatives.

Maybe you are in the wrong century. Old timey globalist conservatives had that view IIRC.

By the iron fist of a global government.

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Chipotle is a pretty good example of this kind of corporate greed. They raised prices by 4%, they say to due to increasing employees wages. But what they didnt tell the news is that they gave their CEO a 24 million dollar pay increase and started a $200 million stock buy back initiative.

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Would never happen, not without wiping out private business and everything being owned by the government.

Here is an interesting article regarding inflation and corporate profits.

More than half of the companies surveyed by the small business services reviews website Digital.com reported raising prices beyond what was required to offset rising input costs.

“In other words, businesses are inflating already inflated prices in order to turn a bigger profit amid people’s fears over uncertain times,” the sites small business expert, Dennis Consorte, said in a statement.

Companies have no need to move their manufacturing away from overseas. They are doing better than they have in decades. On top of it all, they are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices even higher than needed to cover inflation.

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So democrats’ inflation is a catalyst for higher corporate profits?

I’m not a business savvy person. And I can tell that you and I are birds of a feather in that regard.
:fist_right: :fist_left:t5:

Historically, corporations have used inflation as cover to increase prices beyond just covering inflation. It’s a great to increase profit margins without the consumer knowing they are paying extra.

Historically? So we knew what would happen.
So why did the democrats do things that were known to increase inflation?

No. You speak for yourself (thank goodness).

What aren’t you getting? Do you not know that investors like profitable companies?

If you don’t understand that the duration over which a company can provide predictable profits is important to an investor then … you are as dumb as I am.