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And that, dear businessman is why every „middle class” person born after 1980 dreams about operating a guillotine. Fuck all corporations and all investors. Capitalism is bringing to the surface the worst scum of our society.
Stock prices going up when announcing lay-offs has always baffled me. From a pure executive mathematics perspective: profit = revenue - expenses. Employees are expenses, therefore reducing expenses equals more profit.
But from a real-world perspective, employees are the knowledge and effort keeping your company alive. You don't have revenue without employees. So cutting employees is dismantling your business and ruining your ability to function long-term.
I guess that's why CEOs make the big bucks and I don't. They're able to focus on what's happening this quarter, where lowly little ol' me can only think about the big picture.
Yeah. The price boost is from the same day traders looking forward to shorting the stock later.
It baffles me that boards of directors (who ought to have high exposure to the long term stock price) allow this behavior.
I suspect it's because they intend to manipulate the stock price later with a buy-out and because they want to indebt the company to their preferred malicious lender (which they have even more stock in).