In the end I care about the stock going up, and now it finally seems to be doing that. The point of a company is to generate wealth for the owners and nothing else. Employees need to negotiate with the contracts according to that.
No, the point of a company is to provide a net value to society. This often (but not always) correlates with generating profits.
This comes up as excessively naive/idealistic and doesn't match up with the realities of the world.
The comment I replied to was making a normative statement, not a descriptive one. If we were talking about the realities of the world (which we weren't), then I would have agreed with you.