a stinky ox 🐂llamasoft_ox@toot.wales
Jun 3, 2026, 11:14 AMwhy is it always "grow your business"?
why can't it just be "find a nice comfortable equilibrium for your business"?
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Jan Betajanbeta@chaos.socialJun 3, 2026, 11:16 AM@llamasoft_ox I think that sums up most of what’s wrong with the world. It could be that easy!
Jun 3, 2026, 11:16 AM@llamasoft_ox where is the "hey, like maybe have a few sheep and ride to your favourite pubs and mess with video games now and then...for your business"
Ozzelot :runbsd:ozzelotJun 4, 2026, 10:09 AM@nflux
"Acquire cameras and lenses and do next to nothing with em... for your business"
@llamasoft_ox- Jun 4, 2026, 11:59 AM
- Ozzelot :runbsd:ozzelotJun 4, 2026, 12:26 PM
@nflux
Everyone has to pay the GAS company!
@llamasoft_ox 
Paula MaddoxPaulaMaddox@mastodon.socialJun 3, 2026, 11:19 AM@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.
NetzblockiererNetzblockierer@tech.lgbtJun 3, 2026, 12:36 PM@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…
- Cooperative Banks owned by their own customers do put their interests forth, and those have to be sustainabke goals.
Jun 3, 2026, 11:21 AM@llamasoft_ox The shareholders demand it, because the stock market is equivalent to gambling.
- NetzblockiererNetzblockierer@tech.lgbtJun 3, 2026, 12:40 PM
@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…
Simon EI3JDBEI3JDB@mastodon.radioJun 3, 2026, 11:21 AM@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?
A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSCAnomnomnomaly@beige.partyJun 3, 2026, 11:33 AMBecause 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.
Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.onlineJun 3, 2026, 11:40 AM@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.
OddOpinions5failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.toJun 3, 2026, 11:51 AMwell, 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
- NetzblockiererNetzblockierer@tech.lgbtJun 3, 2026, 12:34 PM
@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…
Jun 3, 2026, 1:20 PM@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.
Jun 3, 2026, 2:50 PM@llamasoft_ox because capitalism demands growth. for reasons.
Radio Free Trumpistanclaralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.socialJun 3, 2026, 3:23 PM@llamasoft_ox GREED
bitsaversbitsavers@oldbytes.spaceJun 3, 2026, 3:42 PMbeware any capitalists in a position of power in a non-profit
look to wikipedia as a poster child
Giles Goatgilesgoat@toot.walesJun 3, 2026, 3:49 PM@llamasoft_ox .. about 2500 years ago .. they were talking about ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way
"The Middle Way" ... and 2500 years after we are still not getting it .. 😐
Jun 3, 2026, 4:12 PM@llamasoft_ox "Scaling can go down as well as up." Better actually because failure is much easier than success if a company is small.
❤ plasticpuppy ❤butchrobot@shork.nerdmusic.netJun 3, 2026, 4:21 PM@llamasoft_ox@toot.wales capitalism and narcissism.
Boring Nondescript Little WormHuguesRoss@mastodon.artJun 3, 2026, 9:16 PM@llamasoft_ox what else am I supposed to do with this perfectly good packet of Business Seeds?
europlus :autisminf:europlus@europlus.zoneJun 3, 2026, 9:25 PM@llamasoft_ox @janbeta that’s exactly what I’m intending on doing with my new biz.
Pay my bills, a little cream for frills.
etnoovalenti@oldbytes.spaceJun 4, 2026, 6:16 AMI'd go further with : "make life easier for your clients" - business is just a side-effect
toscalixtoscalix@mastodon.socialJun 4, 2026, 10:26 AM@llamasoft_ox sadly, markets are not systems with equilibrium states, nor their players. If you are not growing, you are getting smaller. And inertia is the worst enemy or the best ally of any business. So you have no choice but to grow... or suffer.
What you can do is to define how you grow, what for...
Jun 4, 2026, 10:27 AM@llamasoft_ox we skipped a step in our company lately. Now we just "help our customers make money"
No pretense of trying to deliver anything of value or improving anything specific