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    55 hours ago

    Cool. Places like Aldis will continue not-fucking their customers while walmart will continue doing the same shit it always has, fucking over poor people and small business owners.

    Dont shop at walmart if you can help it. Or kroger. Or any other shitty american company thats profit driven.

    Cool trick y’all can do: if profit is the clear main goal, that company is garbage no matter what they do.

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              94% of Bosch is owned by the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, which is a charitable organization. They take a significant fraction, nearly half, of the profits not reinvested back into the company or distributed to founding family members and use the money for philanthropic purposes. And for the record, the portion distributed to heirs is comparatively tiny, like a quarter of a percent overall.

              Most of the profits are indeed reinvested back into the company, but for the purposes of R&D and keeping the lights on, not appeasing shareholders.

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                Very cool and good to know. Makes me feel better about those fucking buy it for life wiper blades I just spent too much money on. I’d argue still profit motivated but sounds like a relatively good company given capitalism.

                Edit: big woof – they apparently wrote, maintained, and distributed the fake-emissions-reporting systems used by VW and others. If thats not profit motivated then I don’t think I can trust anything. Founder was a big trump supporter too, the wiki says Bosch parts were in every maga tank in the 1940s.

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        32 hours ago

        Legally, it’s the fiduciary duty of any publicly traded corporation to seek higher returns every year for their shareholders.

        So… yeah, that list will effectively stay empty.