Live on debt and hope the products actually mature fast enough to become profitable before the company goes bankrupt. If they show anything positive, those who own the debt will let them keep going in the hope that what was spent already won't be wasted money.

You have to understand that there is a difference between those who put corporate short-term profits first, and those who actually care about making the company do well in the long term. It's the focus on "make a company go public and be listed on a stock exchange" as the way to make the higher-ups a lot of money that is killing the culture. You see it in politics as well, don't make roads that last for 30 years, use cheap materials that cost less in the short term, but then you need to repave every five years because the roads fall apart quickly. Long term doesn't matter, it's all about short term and trying to convince the public that everything is great, even when it is all falling apart.

Intel is the perfect example, hype, hype, hype, dominate the industry, then sit back, do nothing, company products lose their advantage, but Wall Street continued to be pro-Intel for a VERY long time, even while the company was falling apart. Short term hype, and ignore what is going wrong, gotta drive up the stock price...

And, Intel products are still, "our next products will be so much better, trust me!" is the message from the executives, and Wall Street loves it, right up until the financial reports come out.

At this point, the goal is to make the company go public, talk big to hype the stock price, and sell while things are good, knowing bad policy will kill the company in the long term.

In reading all of these comments(so far at least), the common theme is that people don't seem to understand the difference between the pro-Wall Street corporate approach and the pro-business approach. Wall Street and public companies, have a focus on stock price, and that is their way to make the executives their money. The actual health of the company doesn't matter to those people as long as they can talk big to increase the stock price. Who cares about the products/services offered if they can push up the stock price?

It is that focus on Wall Street that has broken the economy, because short term profits are all important, and long term health means very little to those people. Business schools that are entirely focused on Wall Street are the ones that the article are really talking about, because it pushes the short term stock price being the most important, and if the company fails in a few more years, it won't matter as long as those on top sell their shares ahead of the public selling it off.

You see it all over the place, the corporate environment is focused on the short term, and it has poisoned the mentality of the politicians who also don't care about long term, because the politicians will be out of office before the results of bad policies actually show up in reports. That's the USA, and it's a toxic place for those of us who have to work here.

Nope, prosperity in the 1950s was better than it is today, outside of the wealthy.

The quality of life has been going downhill since the 1950s, primarily due to the shift in focus from "deliver a better product" to, "say whatever just so improve the stock price" as the focus of management. This is why the whole idea of "Go to school for business administration, get a MBA, and get paid a lot without having any experience or knowledge in a given industry. There are few companies left that focus on delivering the best products/services in the USA, they all became public companies where the executives just do whatever they can to boost the stock price.

The real key is that when product quality doesn't matter, and Wall Street stock price is the only thing management cares about, you get the recipe for failure. The issue isn't about if a company is profitable, it is the "give all the money to those at the very top, and those who actually do the work that makes the company money get very little" attitude. When the top person makes $100 million, and the workers outside of upper management make $50,000 per year and are having a hard time avoiding being homeless, that is a major problem. When most companies are run the same way, treating the employees like garbage while those at the top get everything, then switching companies won't help, beyond maybe more pay. When new hires get offers and paid more than employees who built the company, that's the other side of why things are going downhill.

Musk ASSAULTED the entire population of the USA with his DOGE scam that he used to steal the private data of citizens. You may not care that he violated the security of almost every person in the USA, but anyone who isn't a blind follower of that overgrown Oompa Loompa in the White House HATES Musk at this point.

Right wing xenophobes, and they ALL have adopted that from the Nazi Party. You know the playbook, demonize one group of people, marginalize a few more groups, then use the hate they spread to promote laws and abuse towards other people. The moment YOUR group of people starts to feel uncomfortable, you cry like little babies about how you didn't mean for it to be like this.

It has nothing to do with assimilation as such, you just want to push YOUR religious beliefs on others.

Higher prices due to tariffs, with no true effort to open factories in the USA(because the equipment needed for new factories have the stupid tariffs on them), then wars that were never approved by Congress, so that is considered illegal military actions, and it's not helping the world. It was TRUMP who threw out the deal with Iran during his first administration that was keeping Iran from working on nuclear weapons, and was never replaced, so all of this "we had to stop Iran" is entirely due to Trump and no one else.

So, who sees a better world, the millionaires and billionaires, but for the rest of the population, things have only gotten worse. It's actually pathetic how the Trump supporters talk, because they claim they care about family values, but then support child abuse, rape, and exploitation of other people, which is NOT the family values they claim to support.

There is still something twisted in the idea of making money off of someone else getting hurt, and making that a business model. Of course, that overgrown Oompa Loompa in the White House would probably make sure to set it up on the front lawn to showcase just what a neanderthal he is.

You can't expect good things to happen when a convicted felon with ties to sex traffickers and a history of sexual assault are put in power. Add a bunch of bankrupt companies to that criminal, and yea, you get a country that is on the way down.

People do stupid things all the time, but if people profit from the harm or death of others, there is something inherently messed up about that. Picture if Fox News started sending out crews of people to record pushing people in front of moving cars just for the ratings of having footage of a fatal car accident. Should anyone profit from the death or harm of other people?

Because there is a very real possibility that a well designed robot that doesn't have balance issues would KILL the human. If someone swings a 3 foot long pipe and hits you in the head with full force, do you really think you won't potentially die from the impact? Now, picture a robot that doesn't have programming designed to reduce the amount of force, and it's just using its arm to hit your head...yep, death is a definite possibility.

Laws are in place to try preventing stupid people from getting themselves killed, but you don't want people to profit from setting up a situation that will get people killed either. It's bad enough when some "influencer" does things that are not only dangerous, but inspires others to do clearly dangerous and stupid things, but picture if someone is telling that influencer to do it and making money from encouraging dangerous things. Boxing used to be a lot more brutal than it is, just because those running things didn't want to see people die from the events.

So, use this as the basis for a reboot of Knight Rider.