/pol/ - International /Pol/itics & /Bant/er

Obviously the corporate class seeks exponential growth at all costs. From that perspective the most evil actions will make a kind of internal sense. But what doesn't make sense is that so many of the decisions made by major Western corporations seem actively self-destructive. It's almost the equivalent of internal sabotage or following spectacularly bad advice, yet they all seem to be doing it.

You can see it across the auto industry, fast food, retail, entertainment. pretty much everywhere. Like If I were an amoral, profit-maximizing CEO, I'd focus on keeping my customer base in the imperial core happy, well-fed, and dependent, while paying workers in the developing world as little as possible and using coercion to suppress resistance if necessary. That would at least be internally consistent with maximizing profits. Instead companies keep raising prices, cutting quality and generally making life worse for their own customers. These decisions aren't just going to fuck them over in the long term, they're imploding their businesses right now, yet they all keep making them anyway. This trend seems to have accelerated after COVID. What happened?