why is it always "grow your business"?

[janbeta@chaos.social]

@llamasoft_ox I think that sums up most of what’s wrong with the world. It could be that easy!

[paulamaddox@mastodon.social]

@llamasoft_ox so true!!!
All banks and so on think you should be employing 10000 people and having a turnover of 5 million a year. It’s stupid.

[ben@s.djehuti.com]

@llamasoft_ox The shareholders demand it, because the stock market is equivalent to gambling.

[ei3jdb@mastodon.radio]

@llamasoft_ox In general, economics consists of a whole bunch of feedback loops. It's easier to control that with motion in one direction or the other.

In mathematical terms, the solutions to differential equations tend to be oscillations or exponential change. In economics it's often both. It's very rarely a straight horizontal line.

The alternative is a directed, managed economy - but that's the evil communism, right?

[blainsmith@fosstodon.org]

@llamasoft_ox That's all we're trying to get to with @limeleaf and the things we're building.

[anomnomnomaly@beige.party]

@llamasoft_ox

Because greedy narcissists only understand 'line goes up and to the right' every 3 months or it's a financial disaster.

Every time see something labelled as 'bad for the economy'.. replace economy with 'rich wankers'

Raising minimum wage... that's bad for rich wankers

Paying doctors and nurses a decent wage, that's bad for rich wankers.

Affordable and easily accessible public transport... that's bad for rich wankers.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@llamasoft_ox The problem is that the system helps you only if you grow, and that's not only for big companies.
Imagine being an artist (let's say in France), unemployed or so poor that they have to live from social welfare. They propose to become a solo entrepreneur. You have to show your turnover.
If you stay too long under the minimum wage, they will ask you if you are incompetent/need a different job. If you grow, all is o.k. It's all about growth of profits.

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@llamasoft_ox

well, a lot of people make money "helping" you keep your comfortable equilibrium

but a more serious reason is that if you are at a comfortable equilbrium, you don't need that much advice; the biz just hums along

so the people who sell themselves as experts have to find someone who wants to grow the biz

[netzblockierer@tech.lgbt]

@llamasoft_ox because Capitalists believe in the bullshit notion of "rise and grind" when the reality is more like "get grinded and die"…

• Plus the gigantomaniac idea if perpetual, exponential growth on a very finite Earth…

[netzblockierer@tech.lgbt]

@PaulaMaddox @llamasoft_ox not all.

• Cooperative Banks owned by their own customers do put their interests forth, and those have to be sustainabke goals.
  • Literally part of the "Cooperatives Law" in Germany!

But you sadly are correct in general regardless…

[netzblockierer@tech.lgbt]

@ben @llamasoft_ox the only differences between gambling and sock market are

• that gambling is taxed more and someone gabling their possessions away isn't gonna get someone else fired because they worked who's a subvendor for a subcomponent…

[d1@autistics.life]

@llamasoft_ox it's Narcissistic thinking that must always grow the business. Grandiosity is its own end, for them. Narcissistic supply is what they feed on, and must obtain at any cost, no matter how toxic. Study #psychology to actually find the answers you seek.

[yama@tech.lgbt]

@EI3JDB @llamasoft_ox "evil communism"
Red scare propaganda really did a number on the proletariat hasnt it

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@llamasoft_ox GREED

[bitsavers@oldbytes.space]

@llamasoft_ox

beware any capitalists in a position of power in a non-profit

look to wikipedia as a poster child

[gilesgoat@toot.wales]

@llamasoft_ox .. about 2500 years ago .. they were talking about ..

Middle Way - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

"The Middle Way" ... and 2500 years after we are still not getting it ..

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@llamasoft_ox "Scaling can go down as well as up." Better actually because failure is much easier than success if a company is small.

[butchrobot@shork.nerdmusic.net]

@llamasoft_ox@toot.wales capitalism and narcissism.

[huguesross@mastodon.art]

@llamasoft_ox what else am I supposed to do with this perfectly good packet of Business Seeds?

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@llamasoft_ox @janbeta that’s exactly what I’m intending on doing with my new biz.

Pay my bills, a little cream for frills.