I don’t really understand this meme. I mean I think I understand what it wants to say. I just don’t get how it thinks saying it this way is clever.
My interpretation is that companies will spend a lot of effort analyzing human behavior, to find underlying motivations and trends, but won’t apply that analysis to themselves as a business and ultimately just pursue the line going up no matter the consequences.
That’s probably spot on. Thank you
Yeah, it’s specifically because they’re trying to increase profits for so long that they need to get so incredibly meticulous and complicated with how their business works. Companies that just try to earnestly provide a desired service to people who need it in their area of operation don’t need to worry about such details.
But surely that message would be better as the sobbing wojack facing off against the square-jawed chad?
What am I doing with my life? I should go outside.
Yeh. I’m right there with you.
AI might actually be better to replace the CEO role than a lot of the individual contributors. If you could train it on the decisions and outcomes of all the companies out there (this if the hard part, admittedly) then it could come up with strategies that produce better results then humans, even if the decisions seem strange.
Maybe it could even be told it has to act ethically! (Share holders enter the chat am I right)
Still feels like companies barely know me and their algorithms to suggest new products to me all feel mostly braindead.
In the grimdark cyberpunk dystopia of the future, corpros fear only one man.
The Man Who Can Not Be Sold A Subscription Service
They’re the same picture
right now
Only just recently?
Line goes up in relation to how successfully the corporation pursues the agenda of those with power (read: money).
Stock price --> reward function
Surely, there is no possible better system.
Not so much Infinite growth. More about gaining as much money and power as possible as soon as possible, the future be damned.
Wouldn’t these go hand in hand?
Yeah, there’s no real juxtaposition here, the bottom picture leads directly to the top picture.
Failure is not an option. Lets do this!!!
Man, if you think the current executives are bad…
…now imagine removing human emotion entirely. If an AI runs a company, it may reach the conclusion the best way to maximize quarterly profits is to harvest all of their employees organs. Child labor is the cheapest. Russia pays the most for userdata. Etc…
Everybody says this, that companies are always seeking their current quarter profits, but:
- That is irrational and I don’t see why they’d behave that way
- Ive seen no evidence that they actually do
Can anyone provide evidence that companies actually optimize for current quarter profits at the neglect of all other time spans?
I wouldn’t take the meme so literally that they’re only talking about current quarter profits, but just that they want growth in general.
I’m not referring to the meme but to the popular, articulated belief that companies are hyper focused on the current quarter’s profits. It’s often provided as explanation for bizarre behaviors by companies.
Oh, I didn’t realize a lot of people actually believed that I just figured they were being hyperbolic.
Stock buybacks. Enron and WorldCom. Mass layoffs when not needed. https://sci-hub.se/http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.52686 https://sci-hub.se/https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.491627
Nobody can, because this rhetoric on Lemmy is always pushed by gut feelings of astroturfing tankies.
