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Well, I think productivity gains should correlate with stock price growth. If we want stock prices to increase exponentially, sales must also grow exponentially, which means we need to become exponentially more productive. We can stop that — or we can stop tying company profitability to stock prices, which is already happening to some extent. And when we talk about 'greedy shareholders,' remember that often means pension funds - essentially our savings and our hope for a decent retirement, assuming productivity continues to grow exponentially.



I don't think we can stop that unfortunately.

Stock prices are tied to company profitability. That's how it works. In part. The other part is called over valued. That happens more and more.

But I mean, nothing new of course. Sometimes it's a scheme too. Pump and dump.




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