Edit: This question attracted way more interest than I hoped for! I will need some time to go through the comments in the next days, thanks for your efforts everyone. One thing I could grasp from the answers already - it seems to be complicated. There is no one fits all answer.

Under capitalism, it seems companies always need to grow bigger. Why can’t they just say, okay, we have 100 employees and produce a nice product for a specific market and that’s fine?

Or is this only a US megacorp thing where they need to grow to satisfy their shareholders?

Let’s ignore that most of the times the small companies get bought by the large ones.

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago
    • Start business. Business very small, want business big. Big business happier than small business.
    • Need money to big business, small business not enough money.
    • Ask another big business for help small business
    • Big business tells small business: We give you money, you get big, you owe us money back.
    • small business always trying to be big business