coming back to this late, I think my english-language sentences confused people. What I said in "whats not to love" is "this is how capitalism works" but clearly you thought I was saying something else.

eh... if the only way for you to increase profits is to cut costs you have a problem that will accelerate after you have nothing more to cut.

>> making profits means lowering costs

> eh... if the only way for you to increase profits is to cut costs you have a problem that will accelerate after you have nothing more to cut.

You're nitpicking, the GP's post can be easily repaired by reading that as "lowering costs means making more profits."

Businesses like to turn all the dials to increase their profits.