Frisco_Slug_Esq
On Strike!
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I think you're reading into what I posted what you want to. This is nothing new for you. Neither is the attempt to take this to a personal level despite your professed disdain for such behavior. I don't think you know who I work for or what their attitude toward their customer base is.. But that won't stop you from trying to take a personal shot will it Cap'n Hypocrite?
They don't hate the customer, they need them. More realistically they need their money. No company will last that's actively out to screw over their entire customer base, but that doesn't mean that they actually care about the individual consumer beyond making them just happy enough to keep spending. If they can increase profits without noticeably pissing off their customer base too badly, or the increased profit compensates for the loss in business caused by pissing off some of their base, they will tend to do so.
Given the choice of raking in more profit or passing along the windfall from reduced corporate taxes to the customer in the form of reduced prices, profit will win out the vast majority of the time.
You seem to assume that corporations are somehow going to develop an altruistic streak and pass up increased profit margins for their shareholders in order to reduce prices for the customers they care so much about. That simply is not the case, especially if the increased profit does not cause an increase in price to the consumer, the few companies that would do so are the exception, not the rule.
No, not an altruistic streak, a competitive survival streak.
Have you never run a company?
I have...