(September 19, 2025 at 11:24 pm)Belacqua Wrote: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.
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Pleasing the customer is not the goal of capitalism. Obtaining profit is the goal of capitalism.
Good luck doing that without customers coming to your brand.
(September 19, 2025 at 11:24 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The directors of Disney, Nexstar, and the ABC affiliates who wanted Kimmel fired are calculating what will maximize their profits.
No, they're actually in this case devoted to minimizing losses, which is the other half of the P/L statement.
(September 19, 2025 at 11:24 pm)Belacqua Wrote: If pleasing Trump and the FCC helps them get their merger to make a few more billion dollars, that's what they'll do.
It's a gamble, like any business decision -- go off somewhere new, or ply the tried-and-true? But to shitcan this red herring of yours, you wrote that "the boss gets to decide what kind of joke he wants to hear". You didn't appeal to any business marketplace sense, but here you are pushing goalposts now and saying it wasn't about the joke, it was about the business sensibility.
Funny thing is -- the consumer will decide that, your boss's taste in humor notwithstanding. That's capitalism, baby.
