Welcome to the free market and capitalism where enough is never enough. An example A company made made a total of 5 million but was supposed to make 6 million. Now they made more of a profit than last year but there still not happy.
See now you have to tell your lovely investors and shareholders why you didn't make more and there cut is smaller. Money people its all about making more and never satisfied with what they do.
But I read that this kind of thinking rather evolved over the last 3 decades ... Before that, the policies ? philosophies ? in company were not so much money- and growth-oriented, but rather different.
In an article I read that it began in the 80s, mostly during he Reagan era, where there was quite a rebuilding of the whole financial sector.
In that time - according to the article - business philosophies became more and more money-oriented and profit-oriented, compared against the ... I think it was rather an employee-oriented approach/philosophy earlier.
In an Star Wars collecting forum, one put it as such _ In the 70s, there was always a shop employee doing his or her best o satisfy the customer's wishes - oten even ordering single items, if wanted. Customers were
persons, then, they were
human individuals, and these employees were people one knew
personally.
Now, things have changed. we are considered as numbers, as mere tools for giving the companies more profits, shop employees are not personally known anymore, and the tendency would rather be there to punish them if they do ANYTHING that takes away from the most possibly company's income ... Like ordering individual items, for example ...
The shift I see there is that of a de-humanisation of wole businesses.
And on a meta lvel it is almost as if "money" or rather a firm had become a "meta being" which tries to maintain itself and grow and grow and grow ...
Last Wednesday I read a book about dinosaurs. There it was discussed why they became so big.
What astonished me was that there seems to be a natural law in this : Animal groups tend to become bigger over time. As a tendency.
Like some Dinosaur groups did.
And I see a similar law in economics. Companies tend to become bigger over time.
I once wrote about even crystals becoming bigger over time. (Thus dissolving smaller ones in the process, if both are within the same liquid.)
And planets, too. Given they are able to accumulate enough stuff over time.
Growth and a tendency to become bigger appears here, there and everywhere ... It's almost like a natural law built into the universe ...
On the other side stands the Diversity. Hundreds or even thousands of small and tiny animal and plant species in a given space.
What we have here - imho - is the lack of diversity. U.S. economics - and the U.S. are a role model for quite a lot of countries - have an unhealthy tendency towards growth. Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T and the "Baby Bells", EA etc. ...