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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by munk-a on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:46PM (#19687422)
This is sort of just the wide-spread symptom of the free-market-ish system practiced in America. Everything is being reduced to how to maximize RoI, reduce the cycle to realize that RoI and ensure that RoI will be realized. Going for a profit isn't a bad idea from a company, but focusing a company on achieving a localized maxima of profit misses out on the larger benefits long term planning can yield.
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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by travisoneill1 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:08PM (#19687864)
While it may be bad for individual companies, their failure does not prevent somebody else from doing whatever it is they failed to do because of short term thinking.
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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by tomc1985 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @10:37PM (#19688294)
No, but an excess of business moats and outsized legal departments very often do
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