Originally Posted by Bob21 View Post
The reason most businesses treat their employees decently is because this is the best way to retain the top talent, which does guess what? Makes the most money for their shareholders.
Not always, and that business model doesn't do what shareholders really want. It is not enough in the shareholder model to make a steady profit. What the shareholder model needs is GROWTH, which means MORE profit every year. Eventually what many businesses have to do to achieve this is cut costs. Generally this involves a loss of quality, but there is a lag time before the customer notices, if at all. Ideally, the shareholders sell during this lag time before the profits and share prices fall and leave some other sucker holding the bag for when the bubble bursts.