• Optional@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Okay so they still have 2.5 Billion in their pocket and the net profits from three or four more years?

    Let’s say they “only” make two Billion in net profit for the next three years. They’d have eleven Billion dollars just sitting there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
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        19 hours ago

        This is Lemmy; theres very vocal cohort of the users who are anti-corporate, poor grasp of the financial system, and have no content to read so they wander out into communities they have no business in.

        Don’t bother.

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        22 hours ago

        Er, sure, but - is the larger point not clear? They don’t need to fire people. They’re ludicrously profitable.

        • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOP
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          16 hours ago

          Not immediately no, but it increases their margins which makes the company more likely to survive a significant economic downturn.