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Reddit mentions of Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
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Something called maximizing shareholder value. Most American firms believe this is done by focusing solely on next quarters profits and screwing their customers and employees. The only thing most companies care about is earnings per share. Every decision is based upon maximizing earnings per share.
A Great Book about why this is a bad thing: https://www.amazon.ca/Fixing-Game-Bubbles-Crashes-Capitalism/dp/1422171647
That's exactly how current capitalism works.
https://www.amazon.ca/Fixing-Game-Bubbles-Crashes-Capitalism/dp/1422171647
People get shares, overpromise, overcommit, hype it up like there's no tomorrow... and then they sell their shares and get a new job just before the truth comes out and things collapse.
They "make their money back" even if the project fails.