(September 19, 2025 at 11:09 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 19, 2025 at 10:10 pm)Belacqua Wrote: As for hiring someone to tell jokes on TV, the boss gets to decide what kind of joke he wants to hear. That's how capitalism works.
No. In capitalism, the customer decides which joke he wants to hear.
From Wikipedia:
Quote:Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit.
emphasis added
Pleasing the customer is not the goal of capitalism. Obtaining profit is the goal of capitalism.
The directors of Disney, Nexstar, and the ABC affiliates who wanted Kimmel fired are calculating what will maximize their profits. If pleasing Trump and the FCC helps them get their merger to make a few more billion dollars, that's what they'll do.
