Accounting for inflation isn’t growth is the point.
If you’re not making more, you’re making less simply due to that.
It’s real easy to say “just be satisfied with it” when you’re talking about a private company, but for a publicly traded company you’re fucking over millions of people with retirement accounts if you’re not keeping up with inflation.
Are you claiming that if Google only made $50 billion this year it would go under? That it wouldn’t be able to pay its employees? What exactly happens if they make less profit than they did last year?
Because if you’re not, you’re making less simply due to inflation.
You would need to make $108 Billion in profit this year to have the same relative profit as $98 Billion last year.
“Relative profit.” Who gives a fuck? $1 more than costs is a profit. Be satisfied with that rather than unsustainable never-ending growth.
Accounting for inflation isn’t growth is the point.
If you’re not making more, you’re making less simply due to that.
It’s real easy to say “just be satisfied with it” when you’re talking about a private company, but for a publicly traded company you’re fucking over millions of people with retirement accounts if you’re not keeping up with inflation.
Are you claiming that if Google only made $50 billion this year it would go under? That it wouldn’t be able to pay its employees? What exactly happens if they make less profit than they did last year?
Gamblers lose money due to emotions.
What happens if they make less profit? Their stock goes down which affects millions of 401ks that are invested in the market.