• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      3 hours ago

      This is flawed thinking. There is no “them” with a huge salary. The people making decisions are salaried or invested employees, and their livelihood depends on the stock regardless. There isn’t “one guy” that this hits, like it would with a salary, there’s thousands of investors which must be appeased.

      Also, it’s likely many of those canceling were people who didn’t use the service as much as power users, which means they’re losing the cheapest to maintain customers (industry insight, no research to back this up, to be clear).

      If we had boycotts and cancelations even a quarter this big across other media giants, our media would be a far better place.

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      18 hours ago

      That loss affects their stock price, their future outlook, what things they choose to fund, and how much they spend on advertising and trying to recover from this PR disaster.

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        I’m sure that lots of managers are having lots of meetings to discuss what happened, and that’s probably the hardest hit they had: noise.

        The revenues will be slightly impacted but they will hardly notice it on quarterly reports.

        Does that impact the company value? I don’t think so.

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      17 hours ago

      My wage doesn’t have a cost of goods sold line item. If I take in $5b and make $5.5b in revenue, $300m is > 1/2 of my net profit

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        10 hours ago

        True, but if you stop working your income drops to 0, while if Disney stops working, it still owns billions in assets.