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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by chii on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:07AM (#43715154)
> Business culture is eating its own young

it's not eating its own young. It's externalizing the costs.

And it's understandable, because the cost of employees are perhaps the largest line item in the budget.

Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by ozmodiar on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:38AM (#43715926)
Perhaps it's more accurate to say capitalist culture is eating its own young, due to its fixation on business culture. And I'm saying that as basically a capitalist. Not sure where we go from here.
Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by entropicdrifter on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:10AM (#43718052)
Away from unfettered capitalism, clearly.
Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by sorcerer-mar on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:29PM (#43724373)
Shareholder supremacy is the problem.

We can go back to stakeholder capitalism.

Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by chii on Friday April 18, 2025 @01:30AM (#43725291)
What's the difference?

Unless a stakeholder can become a stakeholder without putting in risk capital of course.

Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by sorcerer-mar on Friday April 18, 2025 @08:36AM (#43727480)
Do you have a stake in whether your water supply is full of arsenic?

Yup!

Do you have a stake in whether the people in your community work unsafe jobs for poverty wages?

Yup!

From Claude:

"Stakeholder capitalism is a model where businesses focus on serving the interests of all parties affected by the company's operations - including employees, customers, suppliers, communities, and shareholders. The core belief is that companies should create value for all stakeholders, not just investors.

Shareholder supremacy, on the other hand, is a model where a company's primary or sole purpose is to maximize returns for its shareholders. This view, popularized by economist Milton Friedman in the 1970s, holds that businesses have no social responsibility beyond making profits for their owners while following the law."

Shareholder supremacy is a recent meme and it's wildly, obviously antisocial.