Are you saying stock value increases only come from reducing employee benefits and compensation or from lowering the quality and safety of products and services? Seems like that is simply not true across the board. If a company sells say software they could easily grow revenue and profits without changing their product or reducing employee benefits and compensation. Their earnings would be higher and their stock would go up.

How much of this opinion is coming from being involved in the management of companies vs news articles tuned to generate outrage so that they can generate clicks?

I'm serious. Do you have first hand knowledge of what you speak, or are you just looking for someone to be angry at?

Also, looking at your comment history, you've literally only ever commented on the misery of the proletariat and related topics, which makes me suspect this is an astroturfing account.

> Getting richer has a strong relationship with making others poorer.

This theory is naive, dismissive, and wrong. You have accurately seen some bad examples, and it has led you to incorrectly conclude that the bad examples are the bulk of what is going on.