I think the general trend in business is to squeeze out as much from a customer now and worry about consequences later
No large company can see further ahead than the next quarterly earnings report.
No large company can see further ahead than the next quarterly earnings report.
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On the one hand, the shareholder value movement has done immense harm to the long-term planning of businesses by focusing fanatically on quarterly profits. At its worst, this turns into corporate raiding and asset stripping.
On the other, an increasing proportion of equities are held by tracker funds; Vanguard are largely indifferent to the performance of any one company, as long as the market as a whole keeps growing. The entire business of index tracker funds is predisposed upon stable long-term growth.