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Re:Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords by Nasrudith on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:53AM (#19562578)
It is an authoritarian mentality fundamentally of "social order" - that they are beneath them so it is the "proper order" to obey. Above profitability even. You can see that bit of outright sadism with retail in particular but the pathology exists elsewhere. Rivals of Costco are angry with them for paying their employees more to get better motivated ones and less shrinkage - when if they think it is a waste of money be happy about it. Instead irrational rage because they transgress their precious social order.

It is part of the norm but the norm is horrifying and stupid yet you are the crazy one for suggesting something different like actually listening to the people you pay to think.

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Re:Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords by u801e on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:16AM (#19562698)
> Rivals of Costco are angry with them for paying their employees more to get better motivated ones and less shrinkage - when if they think it is a waste of money be happy about it

Do you have a citation for this claim?

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Re:Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords by Jgrubb on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:43AM (#19562817)
I don't have a citation, but I have read repeatedly that stock analysts cite "overpaying" their workers as a place where they could cut costs and boost short term profits.
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Re:Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords by mcv on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:14AM (#19563019)
Stock analysts is not the same thing as rivals, though. If people think it's needlessly costly, competitors would cheer because their competitor is pricing themselves out of the market. As for stock analysts, if it turns out Costco gets more efficiency out of their better-paid employees because they're better, more motivated and less likely to leave, then that will eventually reflect in profits and stock price.
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Re:Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords by zitterbewegung on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:55AM (#19563304)
Amazon is know for a large capital investment and their stock has gone up even though they could cut costs and increase their margins.
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Re:Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords by philipodonnell on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:41PM (#19567083)
Capital investment != labor costs
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