Comments by "" (@timogul) on "Wall Street Millennial" channel.

  1. I hate how Wall Street incentivizes permanent growth, rather than just being fine with a profitable business model. "Yes, you made more money this year than you spent, but how much more was it than last year?"
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  2.  @nerys71  And that's why this is a broken system. The incentive should be toward profitability, rather than growth.
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  3.  @fgerardburke  I guess at some point you would need to transition from one to the other. "Don't expect the value of your stock to improve that much over the next ten years, but we will pay you good money each year for holding it."
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  4.  @xybersurfer  But the goal should be sustainability, that you aren't losing the ability to maintain operations at their current rate. So long as you can do that, that should be plenty. Growth on top of that is great, but shouldn't be necessary.
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  5. @ Nope. Say you have a business that makes sandwiches. You spend a million a year on all the things it takes to run that business. You bring in a million two per year, plenty to cover those expenses with some left over. That, to me, is a success. But if that business were publicly traded, and you had those profits this year, they would want you to make more than a million two next year, even if you didn't actually need that. They would want you to add expenses in the name of increasing revenues, even if you didn't really have a need to expand. I think that businesses can and should expand over time, in most cases, but they should never have to, not when it often leads to them getting over their skiis and crashing.
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  6.  @giacomovaninetti6976  And this is the problem.
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  7.  @chemicalfrankie1030  Preventing collapse.
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  8.  @johnlynch1353  I get that, I'm just saying that it's a bad system, or at least a system that companies should not have to be a part of all the time. Rewarding growth can be good, if a company has plenty of room to grow and good reasons to do so, but at some point a company reaches a pretty stable place where the best option for all involved is for them to pause, or even completely stop all growth and just continue to do what they're doing at a stable pace, so there needs to be some sort of "off ramp" from the eternal growth strategy.
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  9. They should get some massive sales increases in the future, due to Tesla effectively leaving the marketplace.
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