• DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s no “don’t wanna” unless there’s a “can’t” due to not being able to make a profit. If they could they would. It’s simple as that.

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      1 year ago

      Companies don’t just want to make a profit, they want to make the largest profit. Plenty of businesses turn down profitable ventures in pursuit of more lucrative returns.

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        1 year ago

        Why would they do that if they aren’t mutually exclusive to one another? I’d get this notion if they’d started to do some sort of alternate way of providing for the SK market where their original platform would have been in the way but why close off profitable branches for no reason at all?

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          11 months ago

          Because an organization or person only has so much bandwidth and attention. You can’t infinitely scale to grab every bit of profit.

          “Tripping over dollars to pick up pennies.”

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        1 year ago

        While true, that’s not exactly relevant when it’s a choice between losing a lot of money and not losing a lot of money.